Discretization for Naive-Bayes learning: managing discretization bias and variance

DOI10.1007/s10994-008-5083-5zbMath1470.68204OpenAlexW2113001205WikidataQ62833637 ScholiaQ62833637MaRDI QIDQ1009306

Geoffrey I. Webb, Ying Yang

Publication date: 31 March 2009

Published in: Machine Learning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-008-5083-5

zbMATH Keywords

discretizationvariancebiasNaive-Bayes learning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

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