Praznik: High performance information-based feature selection

Information filters are an important class of feature selection methods. They bring together strong theoretical background, execution speed and high quality. The paper provides a brief review said methods introduces praznik, R package collecting their efficient implementations. Its functionality is discussed with illustrative example analyses on established benchmark datasets, which also demonstrate the package’s competitive accuracy very computational efficiency in comparison to other tools. Moreover, praznik exposes its low-level functionality, aims support research development novel information theory based