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DISCRIMINATION INDEX [2 records]

Record 1 1999-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Examinations and Competitions (Education)
DEF

Indicates how adequately an item separates or discriminates between high scorers and low scorers on an entire test.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Docimologie
DEF

Nombre exprimant le pouvoir qu'a un item de différencier les sujets selon, qu'ils possèdent la caractéristique mesurée.

Spanish

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Record 2 1992-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

The discrimination index is the number of variables that singly discriminate among all the clusters, that is, variables having different values in every cluster description.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
CONT

Le regroupement conceptuel. (...) Qualité de la classification. (...) Le degré de discrimination (...) des attributs dans le regroupement C est évalué par comptage du nombre d'attributs qui apparaissent dans chaque description de classe et y prennent des valeurs distinctes d'une classe à l'autre.

Spanish

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