Experiences from a socio-economic application of induction trees

  • Authors:

  • Fabio B. Losa;Pau Origoni;Gilbert Ritschard

  • Affiliations:

  • Statistical Office of Ticino Canton, Bellinzona, Switzerland;Statistical Office of Ticino Canton, Bellinzona, Switzerland;Dept of Econometrics, University of Geneva, Geneva 4, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • DS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Discovery Science
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a full scaled application of induction trees for non-classificatory purposes. The grown trees are used for highlighting regional differences in the women's labor participation, by using data from the Swiss Population Census. Hence, the focus is on their descriptive rather than predictive power. Trees grown by language regions exhibit fundamental cultural differences supporting the hypothesis of cultural models in female participation. The explanatory power of the induced trees is measured with deviance based fit measures.