On 11/02/2014 04:15 PM, Lars Buitinck wrote: > 2014-11-02 22:09 GMT+01:00 Andy <t3k...@gmail.com>: >>> No. That would be backward stepwise selection. Neither that, nor its >>> forward cousin (find most discriminative feature, then second-most, >>> etc.) are implemented in scikit-learn. >>> >> Isn't RFE the backward step selection using a maximum number of features? > Yes, and I already admitted that mistake, but I'm willing to do so > again if you like :) > Maybe we should add this to the docstring. > Yeah I just read the rest of the thread. Sorry for the noise. Adding it to the docstring is probably a good idea for searchability, and the doc page http://scikit-learn.org/dev/modules/feature_selection.html#recursive-feature-elimination should probably also contain the word "backward selection"
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