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Quantization of Real-Valued Attributes for Data Mining

Qaiser, Elizae
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin983500840

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2001, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering : Computer Science.
In this thesis we address the problem of mining association rules from databases containing quantitative attributes. Values of many quantitative attributes are distributed as strong concentrations in a few narrow regions across a very wide complete range of possible values. Intervals of equal width for such domains are not meaningful and may miss out on many peculiarities of data. Our methodology consists of a two phase approach. The first phase determines the boundaries around most meaningful intervals of the value range. We seek to maximize the information content of the choice of the selected initial interval boundaries. The second phase executes the association rule mining algorithm which uses these interval boundaries and modifies them, if needed, to determine rules with specified support and confidence levels. The set of generated rules is then examined to keep only the most specific versions by deleting their more general versions from the set. We have run tests with this algorithm using a network traffic database and the results obtained are presented in the thesis. We also contrast the benefits of this approach with the one in which we may start with uniform width, fixed size, intervals for a quantitative attribute.
Raj Bhatnagar (Advisor)
Computer Science
data mining; quantization

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  • Qaiser, E. (2001). Quantization of Real-Valued Attributes for Data Mining [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin983500840

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Qaiser, Elizae. Quantization of Real-Valued Attributes for Data Mining. 2001. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin983500840.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Qaiser, Elizae. "Quantization of Real-Valued Attributes for Data Mining." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin983500840

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