Missing data imputation through the use of the random forest algorithm

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

Volumn 61 AISC, Issue , 2009, Pages 53-62

  Pantanowitz, Adam ^a   Marwala, Tshilidzi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Auto associative; Imputation; Missing data; Neural network; Random forest

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HYBRID SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTO-ASSOCIATIVE; AUTOASSOCIATIVE NETWORKS; AUTOASSOCIATIVE NEURAL NETWORKS; IMPUTATION; MISSING DATA; MISSING DATA IMPUTATIONS; RANDOM FOREST ALGORITHM; RANDOM FORESTS;

FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84894310847     PISSN: 18675662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03156-4_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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