TY - GEN
T1 - Similarity measures for categorical data
T2 - 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008, Applied Mathematics 130
AU - Boriah, Shyam
AU - Chandola, Varun
AU - Kumar, Vipin
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Measuring similarity or distance between two entities is a key step for several data mining and knowledge discovery tasks. The notion of similarity for continuous data is relatively well-understood, but for categorical data, the similarity computation is not straightforward. Several data-driven similarity measures have been proposed in the literature to compute the similarity between two categorical data instances but their relative performance has not been evaluated. In this paper we study the performance of a variety of similarity measures in the context of a specific data mining task: outlier detection. Results on a variety of data sets show that while no one measure dominates others for all types of problems, some measures are able to have consistently high performance.
AB - Measuring similarity or distance between two entities is a key step for several data mining and knowledge discovery tasks. The notion of similarity for continuous data is relatively well-understood, but for categorical data, the similarity computation is not straightforward. Several data-driven similarity measures have been proposed in the literature to compute the similarity between two categorical data instances but their relative performance has not been evaluated. In this paper we study the performance of a variety of similarity measures in the context of a specific data mining task: outlier detection. Results on a variety of data sets show that while no one measure dominates others for all types of problems, some measures are able to have consistently high performance.
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U2 - 10.1137/1.9781611972788.22
DO - 10.1137/1.9781611972788.22
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:52649136576
SN - 9781605603179
T3 - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics 130
SP - 243
EP - 254
BT - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics - 8th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2008, Proceedings in Applied Mathematics 130
PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications
Y2 - 24 April 2008 through 26 April 2008
ER -