Discretize Options

For basic information about discretization, which is also called binning, see Discretization.

You must specify separate binning strategies for categorical attributes and numerical attributes. For numeric data, you can choose one of three different binning strategies: equal width, quantile, or custom. For categorical data, you can choose one of two strategies: Top N and custom. For both kinds of data, the system generates a recommended default strategy appropriate for the algorithm that you intend to use (for example, Naive Bayes).

For information about binning methods, see Binning Methods.