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.