Evaluating association rules and decision trees to predict multiple target attributes

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-192

  Ordonez, Carlos ^a   Zhao, Kai ^a  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Association rule; classification; decision tree; search constraint

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION RULE MINING; CERTAIN RULE; CLASSIFICATION; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; MEDICAL DATA; MEDICAL MEASUREMENT; MINE RULES; MULTIPLE TARGETS; PREDICTIVE RULES; RISK FACTORS; SEARCH CONSTRAINT;

ASSOCIATION RULES; DATA MINING; FORECASTING;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 79953305116     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/IDA-2010-0462     Document Type: Article

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