Feature Selection and Variable Importance Ranking with the caret Package in R

Feature selection is a critical stage in machine learning workflows that helps in reducing model complexity and improving predictive accuracy. Ranking features by their relative importance allows practitioners to implement selection strategies such as Top-N (selecting the highest-ranked N features) or Top-percent (selecting features that fall w ...

Posted on Sat, 30 May 2026 22:23:33 +0000 by jeanlee411

Degree Sequences and Constructing Graphs from Graphic Sequences

Definition of Degree The degree of a vertex (v) in a graph (G), denoted by (d_G(v)), is the number of edges of (G) incident with (v), with each loop counting as two edges. (J.A. Bondy, Graph Theory) Two fundamental results follow from this definition: Handshaking Theorem: For any graph (G), [ \sum_{v \in V} d(v) = 2m ] where (m) is the number ...

Posted on Fri, 15 May 2026 05:38:38 +0000 by btubalinal

Data Normalization Techniques in R Using vegan's decostand Function

Core Function SyntaxThe decostand function implements commonly used normalization techniques for community ecology datasets.decostand(community_data, approach, dim_margin, range.global, base_log = 2, rm_na=FALSE, ...) wisconsin(community_data) decobackstand(community_data, apply_zap = TRUE)Arguments:community_data: A matrix-like object containi ...

Posted on Thu, 14 May 2026 06:42:12 +0000 by njm