A discretization method for rough sets theory

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 431-438

  Shen, Lixiang ^a   Tay, Francis E H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

degree of freedom; discretization; Rough Sets Theory

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; MEDICAL COMPUTING; MERGING; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CONTINUOUS FEATURES; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; DISCRETIZATION METHOD; DISCRETIZATION PROCESS; DISCRETIZATIONS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 14644393201     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2001-5506     Document Type: Article

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