A novel approach for incremental uncertainty rule generation from databases with missing values handling: Application to dynamic medical databases

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 211-225

  Konias, Sokratis ^a   Chouvarda, Ioanna ^a   Vlahavas, Ioannis ^a   Maglaveras, Nicos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Association rules; Data mining; Incremental update; Missing values

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH;

ALGORITHMS; GREECE; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 80052102395     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230500209336     Document Type: Article

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