Discretization of continuous attributes in rough set theory based on information entropy

Jisuanji Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Computers

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1570-1574

  Xie, Hong ^a   Cheng, Hao Zhong ^b   Niu, Dong Xiao ^c  

^a SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTH CHINA ELECTRIC POWER UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Continuous attributes; Discretization; Information entropy; Rough set

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA PROCESSING; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MEASUREMENTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CONTINUOUS ATTRIBUTES; CUT POINTS; DATA SETS; DISCRETIZATION; ENTROPY FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ENTROPY; MEASUREMENT OF IMPORTANCE;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 25844499872     PISSN: 02544164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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