21. The method of claim 19 , wherein the feature is defined over a continuous range and the partitions are defined automatically as ranges within the continuous range.
21. The method of claim 19 , wherein the feature is defined over a continuous range and the partitions are defined automatically as ranges within the continuous range. 22. The method of claim 21 , wherein the automatically defined ranges within the continuous range are based on a greedy iterative partitioning technique.