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16 May 2011 Hypercube processing of mixed sensed data entropic associations
Paul Deignan, Antone Kusmanoff
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Abstract
A method for calculating unbiased entropic estimates of multivariate associations between mixed data is given. Since there is no assumption of unimodality of the distributions of the categorical and continuous-valued data, measures of central dispersion are not appropriate for the quantification of association. Empirical estimates of entropic associations are provided with respect to the partition entropy of a uniform binning interval and the cardinality of the sensed data. The increased computational demand incurred by the appropriate generalized measure is mitigated by a branch and bound algorithm for information-optimal attribute selection. The methodology is applied against a known data set used in a standard data mining competition that features both sparse categorical and continuous valued descriptors of a target with promising results.
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Paul Deignan and Antone Kusmanoff "Hypercube processing of mixed sensed data entropic associations", Proc. SPIE 8053, Geospatial InfoFusion Systems and Solutions for Defense and Security Applications, 80530J (16 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.884477
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KEYWORDS
Data fusion

Sensors

Target recognition

Data modeling

Data mining

Target detection

Detection and tracking algorithms

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