Evaluating the impact of missing data imputation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5678 LNAI, Issue , 2009, Pages 577-586

  Pantanowitz, Adam ^a   Marwala, Tshilidzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Impact; Imputation; Missing data; Random forest; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

IMPACT; IMPUTATION; MISSING DATA; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 70350325172     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03348-3_59     Document Type: Conference Paper

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