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<p><b>Data binning</b>, also called <b>data discrete binning</b> or <b>data bucketing</b>, is a <a href="page.php?w=data_pre-processing">data pre-processing</a> technique used to reduce the effects of minor <a href="page.php?w=observation_error">observation error</a>s. The original data values which fall into a given small interval, a <a href="page.php?w=bin_%28computational_geometry%29">bin</a>, are replaced by a value representative of that interval, often a <a href="page.php?w=central_tendency">central value</a> (<a href="page.php?w=mean">mean</a></p><p>
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