Lecture Data mining and analysis: Fundamental concepts and algorithms: Chapter 3 - Mohammed J. Zaki, Wagner Meira
Lecture Data mining and analysis: Fundamental concepts and algorithms: Chapter 3 - Mohammed J. Zaki, Wagner Meira
Chapter 3 - Categorical attributes. In this chapter we present methods to analyze categorical attributes. Because categorical attributes have only symbolic values, many of the arithmetic operations cannot be performed directly on the symbolic values. However, we can compute the frequencies of these values and use them to analyze the attributes.