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. 2020 May 28;8(5):e16452. doi: 10.2196/16452

Table 5.

Feature engineering methods used in the asthma studies included in this review.

Method Values, n (%)a
Univariate feature transformation
Logarithmic transformation 21 (33)
Box-Cox transformation 1 (2)
Method not explained 1 (2)
Feature selection
Factor analysisb 8 (13)
Principal component analysisb 5 (8)
Avoid collinearity 3 (5)
Avoid multicollinearity 3 (5)
Supervised learning methods 2 (3)
Multiple correspondence analysis 1 (2)
Feature transformation
Principal component analysis 4 (6)
Factor analysis 1 (2)
Multiple correspondence analysis 1 (2)

aAs a percentage of all 63 studies.

bThese are not typically methods of feature selection but have been used in these studies.