[pymvpa] New Elastic Net classifier

[Michael Hanke]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:52:03PM -0500, Per B. Sederberg wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> I just wanted to let you know that I just added in a new
> regression-based classifier to PyMVPA that I think is going to be very
> effective: the elastic net (ENET).  It's a variant on least angle
> regression (LARS), but it has both L1 and L2 priors so that it
> sparsifies the features AND keeps redundant features, which helps with
> both generalizability and with sensitivity analysis.

Sounds great -- I will take a look if it is friendly to my datasets ;-)

Thanks,

Michael

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