Timeline for Is it important to convert numeric features to object if they have no ordinal or mathematical meaning?
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| Nov 4, 2021 at 20:41 | answer | added | rep_ho | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 1, 2021 at 21:42 | comment | added | whuber♦ | The whole point of the paper I referenced is that sometimes the "common practice" is the inferior one. Useful information can be lurking in the numerical representations of variables that appear to be purely nominal. | |
| Nov 1, 2021 at 21:37 | comment | added | gsm113 | I guess I am interested in common practices from people here. To me, it makes more intuitive sense for a tree to make a split on a numeric representation of the categorical variable where I control the encoding method. But I don't know if I'm wasting my time doing this. | |
| Nov 1, 2021 at 21:32 | comment | added | whuber♦ | You might get contradictory answers to this question, because a close version of it has been controversial. See psycnet.apa.org/record/2005-07821-008. | |
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| S Nov 1, 2021 at 21:14 | history | asked | gsm113 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |