On changing continuous attributes into ordered discrete attribute

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

Volumn 482 LNAI, Issue , 1991, Pages 164-178

  Catlett, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discretisation; Empirical concept learning; Induction of decision trees

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS ATTRIBUTE; DISCRETE ATTRIBUTES; DISCRETE VALUES; DISCRETISATION; EMPIRICAL CONCEPTS; LEARNING TIME; LOSS OF ACCURACY; REAL-WORLD DATASETS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 37749034335     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0017012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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