Uncertainty measures of rough set prediction

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 109-137

  Düntsch, Ivo ^a,b   Gediga, Günther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attribute prediction; Minimum description length principle; Rough set model

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION THEORY; ERRORS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY;

MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH PRINCIPLE; ROUGH SET MODEL;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032205549     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0004-3702(98)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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