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Table 2 Main notations

From: Accurate breast cancer diagnosis using a stable feature ranking algorithm

Notation

Description

S

the value of a stability estimator

K

the number of nearest neighbors

(X, y)

a sample of features (X) and its label y

\(f_{i,k}\)

the index of the \(k^{th}\) feature after the \(i^{th}\) ranking

m

the number of features in stability analysis

N

the number of feature ranking experiments

n

the number of features used for BC diagnosis

M

the number of BC diagnosis experiments