Data discretization unification

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 183-192

  Jin, Ruoming ^a   Breitbart, Yuri ^a   Muoh, Chibuike ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE VALUES; CONTINUOUS DATA; DATA DEPENDENCIES; DATA DISCRETIZATION; DISCRETIZATION METHODS; FINITE SETS; GENERALIZED ENTROPIES; GINI INDEX; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MINING; SEARCH ENGINES; SET THEORY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 49749119497     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2007.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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