Abstract
This paper derives a measure of the goodness of a classification based on information theory. A classification is regarded as a method of economical statistical encoding of the available attribute information.
Keywords
Measure (data warehouse)Computer scienceClassified informationArtificial intelligenceData miningInformation theoryPattern recognition (psychology)MathematicsStatistics
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- 1968
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 185-194
- Citations
- 941
- Access
- Closed
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Christopher S. Wallace,
D. M. Boulton
(1968).
An Information Measure for Classification.
The Computer Journal
, 11
(2)
, 185-194.
https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/11.2.185
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- DOI
- 10.1093/comjnl/11.2.185