The Reduced Wealth Index (RWI) used at the Public Opinion Poll Center (POPC) of the Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) - Egyptian Cabinet, is evaluated for possible change in the importance pattern of the assets used to create the wealth index between the years 2005 and 2008. The...

This article contends that feature selection is an important pre-processing step in case the data set is huge in size with many features. Once there are many features, then the probability of existence of noisy features is high which might bring down the efficiency of classifiers created out of...