Coding of Continuous Data
Continuous data possess properties that must be preserved by the encoding method:
- Similarity: 1 is more “similar” to 5 than it is to 10
- Accuracy: 1 is different from 5
- Scale: 10 is bigger than 5 but also bigger than 1
Appropriate binary encodings had to be designed or adopted:
- “Band” coding (Centre for Molecular Design, UoP)
- “Hamming-Gray” coding (Roger Sayle, Metaphorics)