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numerosity reduction

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sangfroid1

sangfroid1

IS-IT--Management
Sep 20, 2006
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Hi I am confused with this term "numerosity reduction" Can anyone please explain it a bit more ?

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Numerosity" means the number of distinct values in data. Some data miners will try to reduce this number for individual variables, either to compress the data set or to smooth the data. You can read more about this in "Predictive Data Mining" by Weiss and Indurkhya.

 
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