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Categorical Encoding

Categorical Encoding is a feature transformation technique that converts categorical variables into numerical representations while preserving the semantic structure of the categories for use in machine learning models.

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Categorical Representation of Visual Stimuli in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

David J. Freedman, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Tomaso Poggio et al. · Science · 2001 · 1.2K citations

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Encoding categories of words: An empirical approach to meaning.

Delos D. Wickens · Psychological Review · 1970 · 710 citations

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Product-Based Neural Networks for User Response Prediction

Yanru Qu, Han Cai, Kan Ren et al. · 2016 · 643 citations

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The thetic/categorical distinction revisited

Linguistics · 1987 · 596 citations

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Survey on categorical data for neural networks

John Hancock, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar · Journal Of Big Data · 2020 · 594 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. WT
    W. Todd Maddox

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    7 publications · 722 citations

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  2. FG
    F. Gregory Ashby

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    7 publications · 795 citations

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  3. RL
    Robert L. Goldstone

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    5 publications · 249 citations

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  4. MF
    Michael Friendly

    York University, Canada

    4 publications · 189 citations

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  5. RM
    Robert M. Nosofsky

    Indiana University Bloomington, United States

    3 publications · 660 citations

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Institutions

279

  1. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    9 h-index

    15 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    422 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    203 citations

  4. Florida Atlantic University

    Boca Raton, United States

    5 h-index

    11 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    5 h-index

    10 publications

    4.8K citations

  6. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    213 citations

  8. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    222 citations

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  1. Memory & Cognition

    17 publications · 762 citations

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  3. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

    8 publications · 310 citations

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  4. Perception & Psychophysics

    7 publications · 419 citations

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  5. Cognition

    6 publications · 687 citations

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