January 2011
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
12h 32m
English
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370 Chapter 8 Fuzzy InFormatIon retrIeval
the fuzzy meaning of the primary terms. The fuzzy meaning of the primary
terms can be further fuzzified with connectives and hedges.
To understand the necessity and motivation behind the fuzzy table, take
a look at the data distribution illustrated in Figure 8.19. The data distribution
in the figure represents the relationship between price and number of copies
sold in the book database.
8.6.4 Fuzzy Table Construction
From the transaction table in Table 8.15, a distribution graph shown in
Figure 8.19 can be generated. The x-axis covers the values ranging from
FIGURE 8.19
Data distribution ...