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From: saswss@hotellng.unx.sas.com (Warren Sarle)
Subject: Re: how to classify discrete data?
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In article <4oi9nm$bsk@news.ox.ac.uk>, ba96002@sable.ox.ac.uk (Victor Loo) writes:
|> If I have a discrete set of patterns where there is no obvious 
|> way to transform the data into continuous values.
|> (for a very simple example: 
|> inputs such as names of fruits and food: banana, beef, apple... 
|> and the class names are fruit and food)

See "How should categories be coded?" in
ftp://ftp.sas.com/pub/neural/FAQ2.html


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