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Method for dicretizing attributes of a database

  • US 20040158548A1
  • Filed: 11/20/2003
  • Published: 08/12/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2001
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A discretization method for a database attribute containing a population of individuals, said attribute, known as the source attribute, capable of assuming several modalities, wherein in an initial stage said source attribute modalities are regrouped into elementary groups and wherein a source and a target attribute contingency table is used in a second stage to determine from among a set of elementary group pairs the pair of elementary groups whose merger most extensively decreases the probability of independence of the source and the target attribute, and wherein in a third stage the pair of elementary groups thus determined is merged, said second and third stages being iterative in as much as there is a pair of elementary groups allowing for said probability of independence to be decreased.

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