Features selection based on mutual information

Hi everybody i have to write a method in matlab for features selection based on mutual information criterion and test in on a classifier..but i'm novice in matlab language and i don't know where to start..can you suggest me how to do?there are specific tutorials i can follow to do this?any advice is appreciated Thank you

Answer 1

[Shashank Prasanna]

You can start by obtaining code for mutual information on file exchange:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/index?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=mutual+information

There are lots of code implementation online as well:

http://users.spa.aalto.fi/jpohjala/featureselection/

Answer 2

[maria]

Hi thank you for the answer..i would like to write code on my own..but i see what you suggest me. Thank you very much!