An extended comparison of six approaches to discretization- A rough set approach

Fundamenta Informaticae

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-131

  Blajdo, Piotr ^a   Hippe, Zdzislaw S ^a   Mroczek, Teresa ^a   Grzymala Busse, Jerzy W ^b,c   Knap, Maksymilian ^a   Piatek, Lukasz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b University of Kansas   (United States)

^c POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Discretization; En fold cross validation; F test; Merging intervals; Rough sets; Sign test; Test on the Difference between means

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; EN-FOLD CROSS VALIDATION; F-TEST; ROUGH SETS; SIGN TEST; TEST ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MEANS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FUZZY SETS; NUMERICAL METHODS; ROUGH SET THEORY; TESTING; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

MERGING;

EID: 70349086940     PISSN: 01692968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/FI-2009-121     Document Type: Article

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