Consistency of Incomplete Data

Patrick G. Clark, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse

2013

Abstract

In this paper we introduce an idea of consistency for incomplete data sets. Consistency is well-known for completely specified data sets, where a data set is consistent if for any two cases with equal all attribute values, both cases belong to the same concept. We generalize the definition of consistency for incomplete data sets using rough set theory. For incomplete data sets there exist three definitions of consistency. We discuss two types of missing attribute values: lost values and ``do not care'' conditions. We illustrate an idea of consistency for incomplete data sets using experiments on many data sets with missing attribute values derived from five benchmark data sets. Results of our paper may be applied for increasing the efficiency of mining incomplete data.

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Clark P. and Grzymala-Busse J. (2013). Consistency of Incomplete Data . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA, ISBN 978-989-8565-67-9, pages 80-87. DOI: 10.5220/0004490300800087


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@conference{data13,
author={Patrick G. Clark and Jerzy Grzymala-Busse},
title={Consistency of Incomplete Data},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,},
year={2013},
pages={80-87},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004490300800087},
isbn={978-989-8565-67-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: DATA,
TI - Consistency of Incomplete Data
SN - 978-989-8565-67-9
AU - Clark P.
AU - Grzymala-Busse J.
PY - 2013
SP - 80
EP - 87
DO - 10.5220/0004490300800087