Improvement of decision accuracy using discretization of continuous attributes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4223 LNAI, Issue , 2006, Pages 674-683

  Wu, QingXiang ^a,b,c   Bell, David ^b   McGinnity, Martin ^c   Prasad, Girijesh ^c   Qi, Guilin ^b   Huang, Xi ^a  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision making; Discretizer; Naive Bayes cassifier

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA SETS; DISCRETIZERS; NAIVE BAYES CASSIFIERS;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 33750568786     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11881599_81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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