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Types of Attributes

This document defines and describes different types of attributes that can be used to represent characteristics of data objects. It discusses nominal, ordinal, binary, numeric (interval-scaled and ratio-scaled), discrete, and continuous attributes. Nominal attributes represent categories or names without order, ordinal attributes have a meaningful order or ranking, and binary attributes have only two possible states. Numeric attributes can be interval-scaled, where only differences have meaning, or ratio-scaled, where true zero exists and ratios can be determined. Discrete attributes have a finite set of possible values, while continuous attributes can have any real number value.

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Types of Attributes

This document defines and describes different types of attributes that can be used to represent characteristics of data objects. It discusses nominal, ordinal, binary, numeric (interval-scaled and ratio-scaled), discrete, and continuous attributes. Nominal attributes represent categories or names without order, ordinal attributes have a meaningful order or ranking, and binary attributes have only two possible states. Numeric attributes can be interval-scaled, where only differences have meaning, or ratio-scaled, where true zero exists and ratios can be determined. Discrete attributes have a finite set of possible values, while continuous attributes can have any real number value.

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Types Of Attributes

Attribute (or dimension, feature, variable)is a data field,representing a


characteristic or a feature of a data object.E.g., Patient_ID, name, address
Types
Nominal
Ordinal
Binary
Numeric: quantitative
Interval-scaled
Ratio-scaled
Nominal :categories, states, or
names of things .
Hair_color = {black, brown, blond, red, grey, white} ,
marital status, occupation, ID numbers, zip codes
Binary:

Nominal attribute with only 2 states (0 and 1)

Symmetric binary: both outcomes equally important.


e.g., gender
Asymmetric binary: outcomes not equally important.
e.g., medical test (positive vs. negative)
Convention: assign 1 to most important outcome (e.g.,HIV positive)
Ordinal:
Values have a meaningful order (ranking) but magnitude
between successive values is not known.
Eg. Size = {small, medium, large}, grades, army rankings
Quantity (integer or real-valued)
Interval-Scaled : Measured on a scale of equal-sized units .
Values have order.
E.g., temperature in Cor F, calendar dates No true zero-point (we can add
and subtract degrees -100 is 10 warmer than 90-.
we cannot multiply values or create ratios -100 is not twice as warm as
50-).
Ratio-Scaled : Inherent zero-point .
We can speak of values as being an order of magnitude larger than the unit
of measurement (10 K is twice as high as 5 K)
E.g., temperature in Kelvin, length, counts, monetary quantities.
A 6-foot person is 20% taller than a 5-foot person.

A baseball game lasting 3 hours is 50% longer than a game lasting 2


hours.
Discrete Attribute: Has only a finite or countably infinite set of values.
E.g., zip codes, profession, or the set of words in a collection of documents.
Sometimes, represented as integer variables
Note: Binary attributes are a special case of discrete attributes
Continuous Attribute:
Has real numbers as attribute values.
E.g., temperature, height, or weight. Practically, real values can only be
measured and represented using a finite number of digits.Continuous
attributes are typically represented as floating-point variables( float, double ,
long double)

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