9 Atmospheric aerosols can cause serious damage to human health and life expectancy. Using the radiances observed by 10 NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR), the current MISR operational algorithm retrieves Aerosol 11 Optical Depth (AOD) at 17.6 km resolution. A systematic study of aerosols and their impact on public health, espe12 cially in highly-populated urban areas, requires...

The performance of many machine learning algorithms can be substantially improved with a proper discretization scheme. In this paper we describe a theoretically rigorous approach to discretization of continuous attribute values, based on a Bayesian clustering framework. The method produces a probabilistic scoring metric for diierent discretizations, and it can be combined with various types of ...