
5.4 A Fuzzy Knowledge Base: The Details
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Project_Budget
Figure 5.12 A statistical partitioning of the Project_Budget variable.
to the left and right of the mean fuzzy set. The width of these new fuzzy
sets can also be some fraction or ratio-biased proportion of the standard
deviation. More advanced statistical partitioning techniques also take into
account the skew (symmetry) and kurtosis (flatness) of the distribution.
5.4 A Fuzzy Knowledge Base: The Details
As we noted in the introduction, a collection of variables, fuzzy sets, and
fuzzy rules is called a knowledge base (or KB). ...