On Approaches to Discretization of Datasets Used for Evaluation of Decision Systems
Grzegorz Baron, Katarzyna Harȩżlak · Smart innovation, systems and technologies · 2016
The paper describes research on ways of datasets discretization, when test datasets are used for evaluation of a classifier. Three different approaches of processing for training and test datasets are presented: “independent”—where discretization is performed separately for both sets assuming that the same algorithm parameters are used; “glued”—where both sets are concatenated, discretized, and resulting set is separated to obtain training and test sets, and finally “test on learn”—where test dataset is discretized using ranges obtained from learning data. All methods have been investigated and tested in authorship attribution domain using Naive Bayes classifier.