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Effective Intelligent Data Mining Using Dempster-Shafer Theory

Beynon, Malcolm James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5757-270X 2008. Effective Intelligent Data Mining Using Dempster-Shafer Theory. Wang, John, ed. Data Mining and Warehousing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, pp. 2943-2963. (10.4018/978-1-59904-951-9.ch188)

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Abstract

The efficacy of data mining lies in its ability to identify relationships amongst data. This chapter investigates that constraining this efficacy is the quality of the data analysed, including whether the data is imprecise or in the worst case incomplete. Through the description of Dempster-Shafer theory (DST), a general methodology based on uncertain reasoning, it argues that traditional data mining techniques are not structured to handle such imperfect data, instead requiring the external management of missing values, and so forth. One DST based technique is classification and ranking belief simplex (CaRBS), which allows intelligent data mining through the acceptance of missing values in the data analysed, considering them a factor of ignorance, and not requiring their external management. Results presented here, using CaRBS and a number of simplex plots, show the effect of managing and not managing of imperfect data.

Item Type: Book Section
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Q Science > QA Mathematics
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 9781599049519
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Last Modified: 19 Oct 2022 10:17
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/23868

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