Re: regarding nominal attributes

> I wanted to know whether the performance of Weka's classifiers is too
> affected if I keep my nominal attributes which has "integer" values as
> numeric only.Is it important to assign these attribute  values to  "nominal"
> type.

If you don't specify a nominal attribute as such, you might end up
with unwanted results. For instance, how do you interprete a value of
3.4 (a classifier might use this numeric value to split on)? If
fractions of your attribute don't make any sense, leave it as nominal
attribute.

Cheers, Peter
--
Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/           Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174

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