A frequency based encoding technique for transformation of categorical variables in mixed IVF dataset

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 6214-6217

  Uyar, Asli ^a   Bener, Ayse ^a   Ciray, H Nadir ^b   Bahceci, Mustafa ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b German Hospital IVF Unit   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AREA UNDER ROC CURVE (AUC); BINARY ENCODINGS; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; CONTINUOUS FEATURES; ENCODING TECHNIQUES; EXPERT JUDGEMENT; PRE-PROCESSING; TRANSFORMATION METHODS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 77951021833     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334548     Document Type: Conference Paper

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