Bootstrapping Rule Induction

  • Authors:
  • Lemuel R. Waitman;Douglas H. Fisher;Paul H. King

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '03 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Most rule learning systems posit hard decision boundariesfor continuous attributes and point estimates of ruleaccuracy, with no measures of variance, which may seemarbitrary to a domain expert. These hard boundaries/pointschange with small perturbations to the training data. Moreover,rule induction typically produces a large number ofrules that must be filtered and interpreted by an analyst.This paper describes a method of combining rules over multiplebootstrap replications of rule induction so as to reducethe total number of rules presented to an analyst and to providemeasures of variance to continuous attribute decisionboundaries and accuracy-point estimates. The method isillustrated with perioperative data.