discretization (version 1.0-1.1)

mdlStop: Auxiliary function for performing discretization using MDLP

Description

This function determines cut criterion based on Fayyad and Irani Criterion, is required to perform the minimum description length principle.

Usage

mdlStop(ci, y, entropy)

Arguments

ci

cut index

y

class variable

entropy

this value is calculated by cutIndex()

Value

gain

numeric value

Details

Minimum description Length Principle Criterion

References

Fayyad, U. M. and Irani, K. B.(1993). Multi-interval discretization of continuous-valued attributes for classification learning, Artificial intelligence, 13, 1022--1027.

See Also

cutPoints, ent, mergeCols, cutIndex, mylog, mdlp .