2012/9/4  <[email protected]>:
> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 14:49:44 +0100
> From: Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Scikit-learn-general] p values of exactly zero in chi2
> To: [email protected]
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> Hi everybody.
> I'm pretty new to feature selection stuff and I tried to use the chi2
> selection.
> I got a pvalue of exactly zero on one of the features and one of e-250
> on another one.
> That seems a bit fishy, in particular as they don't seem to correlate
> very strongly.
> Maybe I misunderstood something.
> Any hints?

What did the input look like? chi2 expects frequencies, i.e. strictly
non-negative feature values.

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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