[R] Help on variable ranking

Weiwei Shi helprhelp at gmail.com
Wed Jan 17 19:10:06 CET 2007


I suggest using permutation on each predictor and see how much the
accuracy drops, no matter what modeling approach you used.


HTH,

weiwei

On 1/17/07, Rupendra Chulyadyo <rchulyadyo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I want to assign relative score to the predictor variables on the basis of
> its influence on the dependent variable. But I could not find any standard
> statistical approach appropriate for this purpose.
> Please suggest the possible approaches.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rupendra Chulyadyo
> Institute of Engineering,
> Tribhuvan University,
> Nepal
>
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