5.14.2 comparison of F-test and mutual information
"This example illustrates the differences between univariate F-test statistics and mutual information.
We consider 3 features x_1, x_2, x_3 distributed uniformly over [0, 1], the target depends on them as follows:
y = x_1 + sin(6 * pi * x_2) + 0.1 * N(0, 1), that is the third features is completely irrelevant.
The code below plots the dependency of y against individual x_i and normalized values of univariate F-tests statistics
and mutual information.
As F-test captures only linear dependency, it rates x_1 as the most discriminative feature. On the other hand, mutual
information can capture any kind of dependency between variables and it rates x_2 as the most discriminative feature,
which probably agrees better with our intuitive perception for this example. Both methods correctly marks x_3 as
irrelevant."
"本例展示单变量F检验和互信息之间的差别。假设一个数据集中有三个特征x_1、x_2