Supervised and Unsupervised Discretization of Continuous Features

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 194-202

  Dougherty, James ^a   Kohavi, Ron ^a   Sahami, Mehran ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; ENTROPY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CONTINUOUS FEATURES; DISCRETIZATION METHOD; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FEATURE DISCRETIZATION; FEATURE SPACE; MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PERFORMANCE; SUPERVISED DISCRETIZATION; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; UNSUPERVISED DISCRETIZATION;

DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION;

EID: 85139983802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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