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type: software
title: 'varPro: Model-Independent Variable Selection via the Rule-Based Variable Priority'
version: 3.1.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.varPro
- type: url
  value: https://www.luminwin.net/
- type: url
  value: https://ishwaran.org/
abstract: 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.
authors:
- family-names: Lu
  given-names: Min
  email: luminwin@gmail.com
- family-names: Shear
  given-names: Aster K.
  email: aster.shear@gmail.com
- family-names: Kogalur
  given-names: Udaya B.
  email: ubk@kogalur.com
- family-names: Ishwaran
  given-names: Hemant
  email: hemant.ishwaran@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: Model-Independent Variable Selection via the Rule-Based Variable Priority
  authors:
  - family-names: Ishwaran
    given-names: H.
  - family-names: Kogalur
    given-names: U.B.
  publisher:
    name: manual
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 3.1.0
  url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=varPro
repository: https://kogalur.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/kogalur/varPro/issues/
commit: dbbb4d6351c6eeb93ac44659b5b8441773d42ce8
url: https://www.varprotools.org/
date-released: '2026-04-19'
contact:
- family-names: Kogalur
  given-names: Udaya B.
  email: ubk@kogalur.com