Imputation Framework for Missing Values
 | International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT) |  |
| © - Issue 2012 by IJCTT Journal | ||
| Volume-3 Issue-2 | ||
| Year of Publication : 2012 | ||
| Authors :K. Raja, G. Tholkappia Arasu ,Chitra. S. Nair. |
K. Raja, G. Tholkappia Arasu ,Chitra. S. Nair.Imputation Framework for Missing Values"Imputation Framework for Missing Values"International Journal of Computer Trends and Technology (IJCTT),V3(2):215-219 Issue 2012 .ISSN 2231-2803.www.ijcttjournal.org. Published by Seventh Sense Research Group.
Abstract: -Missing values may occur for several reasons and affects the quality of data, such as malfunctioning of measurement equipment, changes in experimental design during data collection, collation of several similar but not identical datasets and also when respondents in a survey may refuse to answer certain questions such as age or income. Missing values in datasets can be taken as a common problem in statistical analysis. This paper first proposes the analysis of broadly used methods to treat missing values which are either continuous or discrete. And then, an estimator is advocated to impute both continuous and discrete missing target values. The proposed method is evaluated to demonstrate that the approach is better than existing methods in terms of classification accuracy.
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Keywords — Classification, data mining, methodologies.