Importance variable ranking based on information theory

Retrieves a data frame containing several metrics related to information theory. Metrics are: entropy (en), mutual information (mi), information gain (ig) and gain ratio (gr).

var_rank_info(data, target)

Arguments

data	input data frame, all the variables will be evaluated against the variable defined in 'target' parameter
target	string variable name containing the output variable.

Value

data frame ordered by gain ratio metric

Examples

if (FALSE) {
var_rank_info(data_golf, "play_golf")
}