Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING
Volume 17, Issue 12, Pages 1689-1693Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2005.188
Keywords
induction; knowledge acquisition; machine learning
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Many real-world data sets for machine learning and data mining contain missing values and much previous research regards it as a problem and attempts to impute missing values before training and testing. In this paper, we study this issue in cost-sensitive learning that considers both test costs and misclassification costs. If some attributes ( tests) are too expensive in obtaining their values, it would be more cost-effective to miss out their values, similar to skipping expensive and risky tests ( missing values) in patient diagnosis ( classification). That is, missing is useful as missing values actually reduces the total cost of tests and misclassifications and, therefore, it is not meaningful to impute their values. We discuss and compare several strategies that utilize only known values and that missing is useful for cost reduction in cost-sensitive decision tree learning.
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