SelectKBest

classsklearn.feature_selection.SelectKBest(score_func=<function f_classif>, *, k=10)[source]

Select features according to the k highest scores.

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters:

score_funccallable, default=f_classif

Function taking two arrays X and y, and returning a pair of arrays (scores, pvalues) or a single array with scores. Default is f_classif (see below “See Also”). The default function only works with classification tasks.

Added in version 0.18.

kint or “all”, default=10

Number of top features to select. The “all” option bypasses selection, for use in a parameter search.

Attributes:

scores_array-like of shape (n_features,)

Scores of features.

pvalues_array-like of shape (n_features,)

p-values of feature scores, None if score_func returned only scores.

n_features_in_int

Number of features seen during fit.

Added in version 0.24.

feature_names_in_ndarray of shape (n_features_in_,)

Names of features seen during fit. Defined only when X has feature names that are all strings.

Added in version 1.0.

See also

f_classif

ANOVA F-value between label/feature for classification tasks.

mutual_info_classif

Mutual information for a discrete target.

chi2

Chi-squared stats of non-negative features for classification tasks.

f_regression

F-value between label/feature for regression tasks.

mutual_info_regression

Mutual information for a continuous target.

SelectPercentile

Select features based on percentile of the highest scores.

SelectFpr

Select features based on a false positive rate test.

SelectFdr

Select features based on an estimated false discovery rate.

SelectFwe

Select features based on family-wise error rate.

GenericUnivariateSelect

Univariate feature selector with configurable mode.

Notes

Ties between features with equal scores will be broken in an unspecified way.

This filter supports unsupervised feature selection that only requests X for computing the scores.

Examples

>>> from sklearn.datasets import load_digits
>>> from sklearn.feature_selection import SelectKBest, chi2
>>> X, y = load_digits(return_X_y=True)
>>> X.shape
(1797, 64)
>>> X_new = SelectKBest(chi2, k=20).fit_transform(X, y)
>>> X_new.shape
(1797, 20)

fit(X, y=None)[source]

Run score function on (X, y) and get the appropriate features.

Parameters:

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

The training input samples.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or None

The target values (class labels in classification, real numbers in regression). If the selector is unsupervised then y can be set to None.

Returns:

selfobject

Returns the instance itself.

fit_transform(X, y=None, **fit_params)[source]

Fit to data, then transform it.

Fits transformer to X and y with optional parameters fit_params and returns a transformed version of X.

Parameters:

Xarray-like of shape (n_samples, n_features)

Input samples.

yarray-like of shape (n_samples,) or (n_samples, n_outputs), default=None

Target values (None for unsupervised transformations).

**fit_paramsdict

Additional fit parameters.

Returns:

X_newndarray array of shape (n_samples, n_features_new)

Transformed array.

get_feature_names_out(input_features=None)[source]

Mask feature names according to selected features.

Parameters:

input_featuresarray-like of str or None, default=None

Input features.

• If input_features is None, then feature_names_in_ is used as feature names in. If feature_names_in_ is not defined, then the following input feature names are generated: ["x0", "x1", ..., "x(n_features_in_ - 1)"].
• If input_features is an array-like, then input_features must match feature_names_in_ if feature_names_in_ is defined.

Returns:

feature_names_outndarray of str objects

Transformed feature names.

get_metadata_routing()[source]

Get metadata routing of this object.

Please check User Guide on how the routing mechanism works.

Returns:

routingMetadataRequest

A MetadataRequest encapsulating routing information.

get_params(deep=True)[source]

Get parameters for this estimator.

Parameters:

deepbool, default=True

If True, will return the parameters for this estimator and contained subobjects that are estimators.

Returns:

paramsdict

Parameter names mapped to their values.

get_support(indices=False)[source]

Get a mask, or integer index, of the features selected.

Parameters:

indicesbool, default=False

If True, the return value will be an array of integers, rather than a boolean mask.

Returns:

supportarray

An index that selects the retained features from a feature vector. If indices is False, this is a boolean array of shape [# input features], in which an element is True iff its corresponding feature is selected for retention. If indices is True, this is an integer array of shape [# output features] whose values are indices into the input feature vector.

inverse_transform(X)[source]

Reverse the transformation operation.

Parameters:

Xarray of shape [n_samples, n_selected_features]

The input samples.

Returns:

X_rarray of shape [n_samples, n_original_features]

X with columns of zeros inserted where features would have been removed by transform.

set_output(*, transform=None)[source]

Set output container.

See Introducing the set_output API for an example on how to use the API.

Parameters:

transform{“default”, “pandas”, “polars”}, default=None

Configure output of transform and fit_transform.

• "default": Default output format of a transformer
• "pandas": DataFrame output
• "polars": Polars output
• None: Transform configuration is unchanged

Added in version 1.4: "polars" option was added.

Returns:

selfestimator instance

Estimator instance.

set_params(**params)[source]

Set the parameters of this estimator.

The method works on simple estimators as well as on nested objects (such as Pipeline). The latter have parameters of the form <component>__<parameter> so that it’s possible to update each component of a nested object.

Parameters:

**paramsdict

Estimator parameters.

Returns:

selfestimator instance

Estimator instance.

transform(X)[source]

Reduce X to the selected features.

Parameters:

Xarray of shape [n_samples, n_features]

The input samples.

Returns:

X_rarray of shape [n_samples, n_selected_features]

The input samples with only the selected features.

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