A data mining approach to assessing the extent of damage of missing values in survey

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 249-260

  Wang, Hai ^a   Wang, Shouhong ^b  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Business intelligence; Classification; Data mining; Data quality; Fuzzy sets; Incomplete data; Knowledge discovery; Missing values; Survey data

Indexed keywords

EID: 42049103669     PISSN: 17438187     EISSN: 17438195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2007.015484     Document Type: Article

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