Feature importance information available in a predictive model with
correlation information among the variables is presented to facilitate
more flexible choices of actions by business managers. The displayed
feature importance information combines feature importance information
available in a predictive model with correlational information among the
variables. The displayed feature importance information may be presented
as a network structure among the variables as a graph, and regression
coefficients of the variables indicated on the corresponding nodes in the
graph. To generate the display, a regression engine is called on a set of
training data that outputs importance measures for the explanatory
variables for predicting the target variable. A graphical model
structural learning module is called that outputs a graph on the
explanatory variables of the above regression problem representing the
correlational structure among them. The feature importance measure,
output by the regression engine, is displayed for each node in the graph,
as an attribute, such as color, size, texture, etc, of that node in the
graph output by the graphical model structural learning module.