Ameva: An autonomous discretization algorithm

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 5327-5332

  Gonzalez Abril, L ^a   Cuberos, F J ^b   Velasco, F ^a   Ortega, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b Planning Dept RTVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Knowledge discovery; Machine learning; Supervised discretization

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CHI SQUARE STATISTIC; COMBINATORIAL APPROACH; DISCRETE ATTRIBUTES; DISCRETE INTERVALS; DISCRETIZATION ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHM APPROACH; NUMBER OF CLASS; SUPERVISED DISCRETIZATION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 58349109053     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.06.063     Document Type: Article

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