MXM: Feature Selection (Including Multiple Solutions) and Bayesian Networks

Many feature selection methods for a wide range of response variables, including minimal, statistically-equivalent and equally-predictive feature subsets. Bayesian network algorithms and related functions are also included. The package name 'MXM' stands for "Mens eX Machina", meaning "Mind from the Machine" in Latin. References: a) Lagani, V. and Athineou, G. and Farcomeni, A. and Tsagris, M. and Tsamardinos, I. (2017). "Feature Selection with the R Package MXM: Discovering Statistically Equivalent Feature Subsets". Journal of Statistical Software, 80(7). <doi:10.18637/jss.v080.i07>. b) Tsagris, M., Lagani, V. and Tsamardinos, I. (2018). "Feature selection for high-dimensional temporal data". BMC Bioinformatics, 19:17. <doi:10.1186/s12859-018-2023-7>. c) Tsagris, M., Borboudakis, G., Lagani, V. and Tsamardinos, I. (2018). "Constraint-based causal discovery with mixed data". International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 6(1): 19-30. <doi:10.1007/s41060-018-0097-y>. d) Tsagris, M., Papadovasilakis, Z., Lakiotaki, K. and Tsamardinos, I. (2018). "Efficient feature selection on gene expression data: Which algorithm to use?" BioRxiv. <doi:10.1101/431734>. e) Tsagris, M. (2019). "Bayesian Network Learning with the PC Algorithm: An Improved and Correct Variation". Applied Artificial Intelligence, 33(2):101-123. <doi:10.1080/08839514.2018.1526760>. f) Tsagris, M. and Tsamardinos, I. (2019). "Feature selection with the R package MXM". F1000Research 7: 1505. <doi:10.12688/f1000research.16216.2>. g) Borboudakis, G. and Tsamardinos, I. (2019). "Forward-Backward Selection with Early Dropping". Journal of Machine Learning Research 20: 1-39. h) Tsagris, M., Papadovasilakis, Z., Lakiotaki, K. and Tsamardinos, I. (2022). "The gamma-OMP algorithm for feature selection with application to gene expression data". IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 19(2): 1214-1224. <doi:10.1109/TCBB.2020.3029952>.

Version: 1.5.8
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: methods, stats, utils, survival, MASS, graphics, ordinal, nnet, quantreg, lme4, foreach, doParallel, parallel, relations, Rfast, visNetwork, energy, geepack, dplyr, bigmemory, coxme, Rfast2, Hmisc
Suggests: markdown, R.rsp, knitr
Published: 2026-09-01
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.MXM
Author: Konstantina Biza [aut], Ioannis Tsamardinos [aut, cph], Vincenzo Lagani [aut, cph], Giorgos Athineou [aut], Michail Tsagris [aut], Giorgos Borboudakis [ctb], Anna Roumpelaki [ctb], Stavros Papadopoulos [cre]
Maintainer: Stavros Papadopoulos <staurospapflor at gmail.com>
License: GPL-2
Copyright: See inst/COPYRIGHTS.
MXM copyright details
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: MXM citation info
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: MXM results

Documentation:

Reference manual: MXM.html , MXM.pdf
Vignettes: Tutorial: Feature selection with the MMPC algorithm (source, R code)
Tutorial: Feature selection with the SES algorithm (source, R code)
Guide on performing feature selection with the R package MXM (source)
Discovering Statistically-Equivalent Feature Subsets with MXM (source)
A very brief guide to using MXM (source)

Downloads:

Package source: MXM_1.5.8.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): MXM_1.5.8.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): MXM_1.5.8.tgz, r-release (x86_64): MXM_1.5.8.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): MXM_1.5.8.tgz
Old sources: MXM archive

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