Influence of Data Geometry in Random Subset Feature Selection

The geometry of data, also known as probability distribution, is an important consideration for accurate computation of data mining tasks, such as pre-processing, classification and interpretation. The data geometry influences outcome and accuracy of the statistical analysis to a large extent. The current paper focuses on, understanding the influence of data geometry in the feature subset selection process using random forest algorithm. In practice, it is assumed that the data follows normal distribution and most of the time, it may not be true. The dimensionality reduction varies, due to change in the distribution of the data. A comparison is made using three standard distributions such as Triangular, Uniform and Normal Distribution. The results are discussed in this paper.