Game theoretical approach to determine feature importance. A practical case of use
In the last years, the usage of Shapley value is being extended through machine learning algorithms as a method to determine the importance of a feature on its contribution to a certain target value. This is done by defining a cooperative game where features play the role of voters.
In this talk we will comment an application of this method into e-commerce business decisions where the target is binary. We will point out some properties like the fact that the cooperative game associated it is not a simple game when the target is binary. Additionally, we will briefly comment some comparison between other methods in the literature to determine importances.
Keywords: game theory cooperative games data science