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Human Focused Summarizing Statistics Using OWA Operators

Human Focused Summarizing Statistics Using OWA Operators

Ronald R. Yager
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781605668581|ISBN10: 1605668583|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924478|EISBN13: 9781605668598
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-858-1.ch009
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Yager, Ronald R. "Human Focused Summarizing Statistics Using OWA Operators." Scalable Fuzzy Algorithms for Data Management and Analysis: Methods and Design, edited by Anne Laurent and Marie-Jeanne Lesot, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 238-253. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-858-1.ch009

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Yager, R. R. (2010). Human Focused Summarizing Statistics Using OWA Operators. In A. Laurent & M. Lesot (Eds.), Scalable Fuzzy Algorithms for Data Management and Analysis: Methods and Design (pp. 238-253). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-858-1.ch009

Chicago

Yager, Ronald R. "Human Focused Summarizing Statistics Using OWA Operators." In Scalable Fuzzy Algorithms for Data Management and Analysis: Methods and Design, edited by Anne Laurent and Marie-Jeanne Lesot, 238-253. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-858-1.ch009

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Abstract

The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operator is introduced and the author discusses how it can provide a basis for generating summarizing statistics over large data sets. The author further notes how different forms of OWA operators, and hence different summarizing statistics, can be induced using weight-generating functions. The author shows how these weight-generating functions can provide a vehicle with which a data analyst can express desired summarizing statistics. Modern data analysis requires the use of more human focused summarizing statistics then those classically used. The author’s goal here is to develop to ideas to enable a human focused approach to summarizing statistics. Using these ideas we can envision a computer aided construction of the weight generating functions based upon a combination of graphical and linguistic specifications provided by a data analyst describing his desired summarization.

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