smoothing_freq: Smoothing by equal frequency

In daltoolbox: Leveraging Experiment Lines to Data Analytics

Smoothing by equal frequency

Description

Discretize a numeric vector into n bins with approximately equal frequency (quantile cuts), and replace each value by the mean of its bin.

Usage

smoothing_freq(n)

Arguments

n	number of bins

Value

returns an object of class smoothing_freq

References

Han, J., Kamber, M., Pei, J. (2011). Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques. (Discretization)

Examples

data(iris)
obj <- smoothing_freq(n = 2)
obj <- fit(obj, iris$Sepal.Length)
sl.bi <- transform(obj, iris$Sepal.Length)
table(sl.bi)
obj$interval

entro <- evaluate(obj, as.factor(names(sl.bi)), iris$Species)
entro$entropy

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