How to encode categorical variables for neural networks
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How to recode categorical variable into numerical variable when using SVM or Neural Network
98888
Encode multi-class response variable
76906
Penalized methods for categorical data: combining levels in a factor
156489
Why do we need to dummy code categorical variables
118753
Is feature selection with dummy coding of categorical variables problematic?
155450
Neural Network: MLP for regression with 3 continuous features, 1 categorical
44904
Neural Networks input data normalization and centering
122557
Can covariates be categorial variables?
10256
Principled way of collapsing categorical variables with many levels?
49652
Generating random variables from a mixture of Normal distributions
31068
How to measure correlation between categorical variable?
24616
Qualitative variable coding in regression leads to "singularities"
82239
Accuracy in neural network for regression
130037
correlation between categorical variables
13412
Motivating sigmoid output units in neural networks starting with unnormalized log probabilities linear in $z=w^Th+b$ and $\phi(z)$
66728
What are good initial weights in a neural network?
11188
Can principal component analysis be applied to datasets containing a mix of continuous and categorical variables?