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A probabilistic approximation is a generalization of the standard idea of lower and upper approximations, defined for equivalence relations. Recently probabilistic approximations were additionally generalized to an arbitrary binary relation so that probabilistic approximations may be applied for incomplete data. We discuss two ways to induce rules from incomplete data using probabilistic approximations, by applying true MLEM2 algorithm and an emulated MLEM2 algorithm. In this paper we report novel research on a comparison of both approaches: new results of experiments on incomplete data with three interpretations of missing attribute values. Our results show that both approaches do not differ much.
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Clark, P.G., Grzymala-Busse, J.W. (2014). A Comparison of Two Versions of the MLEM2 Rule Induction Algorithm Extended to Probabilistic Approximations. In: Cornelis, C., Kryszkiewicz, M., Ślȩzak, D., Ruiz, E.M., Bello, R., Shang, L. (eds) Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing. RSCTC 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8536. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08644-6_11
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