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Categorical variable
Known as:
Categorical
, Categorical data
, Nonnumerical variable
In statistics, a categorical variable is a variable that can take on one of a limited, and usually fixed, number of possible values, assigning each…
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2015
2015
Comparative Study of Various Clustering Techniques in Data Mining
Anu Soni
,
Mukta Goel
,
Rohit Goel
2015
Corpus ID: 62780958
Data mining is used to find the hidden information pattern and relationship between the large data set which is very useful in…
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Review
2011
Review
2011
A population based survey on knowledge and awareness ofbreast cancer in the suburban females of Sungai Petani,Kedah, Malaysia
M. Baig
,
V. Subramaniam
,
Annaliza Anusha Ch
,
rasegar
,
T. Khan
2011
Corpus ID: 30829228
Background: Globally breast cancer is one of the most common cancers and a major public health challenge to women health…
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2011
2011
Clustering of Concept Drift Categorical Data Using Our-NIR Method
S. Raju
,
N. Reddy
,
K. Sunitha
,
H. Reddy
,
G. Sreenivasulu
2011
Corpus ID: 16163194
In the clustering using Ming-Syan Chen NIR method has deficiency that is importance of data labeling and outlier detection. The…
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2011
2011
A Classical Fuzzy Approach for Software Effort Estimation on Machine Learning Technique
S. Malathi
,
S. Sundaramoorthy
arXiv.org
2011
Corpus ID: 7629801
Software Cost Estimation with resounding reliability, productivity and development effort is a challenging and onerous task. This…
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2008
2008
Fast parallel outlier detection for categorical datasets using MapReduce
Anna Koufakou
,
J. Secretan
,
J. Reeder
,
K. Cardona
,
M. Georgiopoulos
IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
2008
Corpus ID: 8209961
Outlier detection has received considerable attention in many applications, such as detecting network attacks or credit card…
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Review
2007
Review
2007
5 Challenges and Unsolved Problems
R. Laramee
,
Robert Kosara
2007
Corpus ID: 8878505
data [76]. Parallel sets can be considered an extension of parallel coordinates. This visualization shows the relationships…
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2005
2005
New Developments in Categorical Data Analysis for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
T. Maiti
2005
Corpus ID: 118065628
2002
2002
Landscape connectivity studies on segmentation based classification and manual interpretation of remote sensing data
E. Ivits
,
B. Koch
,
T. Blaschke
,
L. Waser
2002
Corpus ID: 55585579
Analysing landscape structure and landscape pattern through indices is relatively widespread in landscape ecology and landscape…
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1999
1999
Updating of association rules dynamically
King-Kwok Ng
,
Wai Lam
Dante
1999
Corpus ID: 206600621
We propose a new algorithm to handle the problem of updating of association rules. Recent methods on this problem usually employ…
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Review
1996
Review
1996
Book review of 'Andersen, E.B. (1994). The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data (3rd edn). Springer-Verlag, Berlin.'
G. Molenberghs
1996
Corpus ID: 148840437