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We describe an approach to fill missing values in decision trees during classification. This approach is derived from the ordered attribute trees method, propo sed by Lobo and Numao in 2000, which builds a decision tree for each attribute and uses these trees to fill the missing attribute values. It is based on the Mutual Information between the attributes and the class. Our approach primarily extends this method on three points: 1) it does not impose an order of construction; 2) a probability distribution is used for each missing attribute instead of the most pro bable value; 3) the result of the classification process is a probability distribution i nstead of a single class. Moreover, our method takes the dependence between attributes into account. We present Lobo’s approach and our extensions, we compare them, and we discuss some perspectives.
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Hawarah, L., Simonet, A., Simonet, M. (2004). A Probabilistic Approach to Classify Incomplete Objects Using Decision Trees. In: Galindo, F., Takizawa, M., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30075-5_53
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