Mining numerical data - A rough set approach

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

Volumn 5946 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 1-13

  Grzymala Busse, Jerzy W ^a,b  

^a University of Kansas   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE VALUES; DATA MINING METHODS; DATA SETS; DISCRETIZATIONS; EQUAL INTERVALS; HIGH QUALITY; LEM2 RULE INDUCTION ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL ATTRIBUTES; NUMERICAL DATA; ROUGH SET;

MINING;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

EID: 77949845051     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11479-3_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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