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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Patrick Hall, Durham, NC (US);
Ilknur Kaynar Kabul, Apex, NC (US);
Jared Langford Dean, Cary, NC (US);
Susan Haller, Raleigh, NC (US);
Jorge Silva, Durham, NC (US);
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
A computing device to select decorrelated variables using a graph based method is provided. A correlation value is computed between each pair of a plurality of variables to define a correlation matrix. A binary threshold value is compared to each correlation value to define a binary similarity matrix from the correlation matrix. An undirected graph comprising a subgraph that includes one or more connected nodes is defined based on the binary similarity matrix to store connectivity information for the plurality of variables. Each node of the subgraph is pairwise associated with a unique variable of the variables. (a) A least connected node is selected from the undirected graph based on the connectivity information. (b) The selected least connected node is removed from the undirected graph. (c) The connectivity information for the undirected graph is updated based on the removed node. (d) (a)-(c) are repeated until a stop criterion is satisfied.