The use of various data mining and feature selection methods in the analysis of a population survey dataset

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 84, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pitt, Ellen ^a   Nayak, Richi ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing populations; Data mining; Feature reduction; Filter methods; Self assessed health status; Wrapper methods

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTEGRATION; DATA MINING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; HEALTH; REDUCTION;

AGEING POPULATION; FEATURE REDUCTION; FILTER METHOD; HEALTH STATUS; WRAPPER METHODS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 84886406023     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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