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varPro

Model-Independent Variable Selection via the Rule-Based Variable Priority

v3.1.0 · Apr 19, 2026 · GPL (>= 3)

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A new framework of variable selection, which instead of generating artificial covariates such as permutation importance and knockoffs, creates release rules to examine the affect on the response for each covariate where the conditional distribution of the response variable can be arbitrary and unknown.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies randomForestSRC glmnet foreach gbm BART survival ggRandomForests randomForestRHF randomForestSGT varPro

Version History

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updated 3.1.0 ← 3.0.0 diff Apr 19, 2026
updated 3.0.0 ← 2.1.0 diff Apr 8, 2026
new 2.1.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.1.0 ← 2.0.0 diff Feb 11, 2026
updated 2.0.0 ← 1.0.1 diff Jan 10, 2026
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Dec 13, 2025
new 1.0.0 Dec 10, 2025