Package

weka.attributeSelection

Synopsis

BestFirst:

Searches the space of attribute subsets by greedy hillclimbing augmented with a backtracking facility. Setting the number of consecutive non-improving nodes allowed controls the level of backtracking done. Best first may start with the empty set of attributes and search forward, or start with the full set of attributes and search backward, or start at any point and search in both directions (by considering all possible single attribute additions and deletions at a given point).

Options

The table below describes the options available for BestFirst.

Option	Description
direction	Set the direction of the search.
lookupCacheSize	Set the maximum size of the lookup cache of evaluated subsets. This is expressed as a multiplier of the number of attributes in the data set. (default = 1).
searchTermination	Set the amount of backtracking. Specify the number of
startSet	Set the start point for the search. This is specified as a comma seperated list off attribute indexes starting at 1. It can include ranges. Eg. 1,2,5-9,17.