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topdown

Auxiliary function for performing top-down discretization algorithm


Description

This function is required to perform the disc.Topdown().

Usage

topdown(data, method = 1)

Arguments

data

numeric data matrix to discretized dataset

method

1: CAIM algorithm, 2: CACC algorithm, 3: Ameva algorithm.

Author(s)

References

Gonzalez-Abril, L., Cuberos, F. J., Velasco, F. and Ortega, J. A. (2009) Ameva: An autonomous discretization algorithm, Expert Systems with Applications, 36, 5327–5332.

Kurgan, L. A. and Cios, K. J. (2004). CAIM Discretization Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on knowledge and data engineering, 16, 145–153.

Tsai, C. J., Lee, C. I. and Yang, W. P. (2008). A discretization algorithm based on Class-Attribute Contingency Coefficient, Information Sciences, 178, 714–731.

See Also


discretization

Data preprocessing, discretization for classification.

v1.0-1
GPL
Authors
HyunJi Kim
Initial release
2010-12-02

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