A Novel Approach for Reducing Attributes and Its Application to Small Enterprise Financing Ability Evaluation

Table 5

Attribute reduction process based on test significance discrimination.

No.		Correlation coefficient; between attribute and	Relevance ranking; between attribute and				(8) Reduction results
1		0.782	1	0.114	1217.2	3.8556	Reserve
2		0.721	2	0.351	1322.2	3.8555	Reserve
3		0.717	3	0.033	41.579	3.8555	Reserve
⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯
19		0.136	19	0.01	7.9439	3.8552	Reserve
20		0.126	20	0.003	2.3591	3.8552	Delete by test; significance discrimination
⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯	⋯
53		0.000	53	—	—	—	Delete by test; significance discrimination