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Table 4 Summary of methods compared in the benchmark experiment

From: Benchmark study of feature selection strategies for multi-omics data

Method

Selector

R package::function

Filter

t-test

::t.test

 

Information gain (infor)

FSelector::information.gain

 

ReliefF

FSelector::relief

 

The Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (mRMR)

mRMRe::mRMR.ensemble

Wrapper

Recursive feature elimination (Rfe)

Caret::rfeControl and rfe

 

Genetic algorithm (GA)

Caret::gafsControl and gafs

Embedded

The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (Lasso)

Glmnet::cv.glmnet

 

The permutation importance of random forests (RF-VI)

Ranger:: ranger