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    AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6:445-9.

    Improving classification performance with discretization on biomedical datasets.

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    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

    Abstract

    Discretization acts as a variable selection method in addition to transforming the continuous values of the variable to discrete ones. Machine learning algorithms such as Support Vector Machines and Random Forests have been used for classification in high-dimensional genomic and proteomic data due to their robustness to the dimensionality of the data. We show that discretization can help improve significantly the classification performance of these algorithms as well as algorithms like Naïve Bayes that are sensitive to the dimensionality of the data.

    PMID:
    18999186
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID: PMC2656082
    Free PMC Article

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