hierarchy_cut: Hierarchy mapping by cut

In daltoolbox: Leveraging Experiment Lines to Data Analytics

Hierarchy mapping by cut

Description

Create a categorical hierarchy from a numeric attribute using cut points.

Usage

hierarchy_cut(attribute, breaks, labels = NULL, new_attribute = NULL)

Arguments

attribute	numeric attribute to discretize
breaks	numeric breakpoints for cut
labels	optional labels for the cut intervals
new_attribute	name of the new attribute (default: "attribute.Level")

Value

returns an object of class hierarchy_cut

Examples

data(iris)
hc <- hierarchy_cut(
 "Sepal.Length",
 breaks = c(-Inf, 5.5, 6.5, Inf),
 labels = c("baixo", "medio", "alto")
)
iris_h <- transform(hc, iris)
table(iris_h$Sepal.Length.Level)

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