Feature Subset Selection

A tutorial on feature selection and a recommended strategy

Pádraig Cunningham
Towards Data Science
16 min readMar 22, 2023

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TL;DR

Feature subset selection is important in supervised machine learning not just because it results in better models but also because of the insight it provides. This is particularly important now with the emphasis on interpretability in machine learning (ML).

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