A Genetic Algorithm for Selection of Fixed-Size Subsets with Application to Design Problems

The R function kofnGA conducts a genetic algorithm search for the best subset of k items from a set of n alternatives, given an objective function that measures the quality of a subset. The function fills a gap in the presently available subset selection software, which typically searches over a ran...

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Main Author: Mark A. Wolters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2015-11-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/1109