Nominal and Ordinal attributes are collectively referred to as categorical or qualitative attributes. – qualitative attributes such as employee ID
Database rows ? data objects; columns ? attributes Q1: Is student ID a nominal ordinal
We oper- ationalized the ordinal attribute as food healthiness and the nominal attribute as food flavor. Method. Data were collected by a separate research team
Index Terms—Categorical data clustering algorithms
What's in an attribute? Nominal ordinal
In clustering analysis tasks categorical data composed of both ordinal and nominal attributes (also called mixed-categorical data interchangeably) are common.
ordinal and continuous-valued attributes by formalizing the in- algorithm for use in high-dimensional attribute space. We evaluate.
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Jul 28 2019 Ordinal and Attribute Aware Response Generation in a Multimodal. Dialogue System. Hardik Chauhan1?
ordinal attribute since its domain values are ordered by increasing educational qualification [24] 1 3Existing(dis)similaritymeasureofordinal attribute In order to solve the problem in measurements of ordinal attribute value Brouwer [30] proposed one method based on fuzzy set theory In that paper the ordinal linguistic
Types of Attributes There are different types of attributes Nominal Examples: ID numbers eye color zip codes Ordinal Examples: rankings (e g taste of potato chips on a scale from 1-10) grades height {tall medium short} Interval Examples: calendar dates temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit Ratio
Nominal vs ordinal • Attribute “age” nominal • Attribute “age” ordinal (e g “young” < “pre-presbyopic” < “presbyopic”) If age = young and astigmatic = no and tear production rate = normal then recommendation = soft If age = pre-presbyopic and astigmatic = no and tear production rate = normal then recommendation = soft
ordinal interval or ratio scale variables Ordinal Ordinal scales build upon nominal scales by assigning numbers to objects to reflect a rank ordering on an attribute in question For example assigning ID codes 1 2 and 3 to represent a persons response to a question regarding use rate: 1 = use often; 2 = use sometimes; 3 = never use
Data attribute types: nominal binary ordinal interval-scaled ratio-scaled Many types of data sets e g numerical text graph Web image Gain insight into the data by: Basic statistical data description: central tendency dispersion graphical displays Data visualization: map data onto graphical primitives Measure data similarity
Ordinal Attributes Ordinal Analyses Only A review of Ordinal Measurement in the Behavioral Sciences by Norman Cliff and John A Keats Mahwah NJ: Erlbaum 2003 217 pp ISBN 0-8058-2093-0 $69 95 paperback Reviewed by R Duncan Luce Those who have thought at all deeply about measurement mostly agree that some qualitative form of