Title
Finding Meaningful Bayesian Confirmation Measures
Abstract
The paper focuses on Bayesian confirmation measures used for evaluation of rules induced from data. To distinguish between many confirmation measures, their properties are analyzed. The article considers a group of symmetry properties. We demonstrate that the symmetry properties proposed in the literature focus on extreme cases corresponding to entailment or refutation of the rule's conclusion by its premise, forgetting intermediate cases. We conduct a thorough analysis of the symmetries regarding that the confirmation should express how much more probable the rule's hypothesis is when the premise is present rather than when the negation of the premise is present. As a result we point out which symmetries are desired for Bayesian confirmation measures. Next, we analyze a set of popular confirmation measures with respect to the symmetry properties and other valuable properties, being monotonicity M, Ex1 and weak Ex1, logicality L and weak L. Our work points out two measures to be the most meaningful ones regarding the considered properties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3233/FI-2013-902
Fundam. Inform.
Keywords
Field
DocType
weak l.,popular confirmation measure,finding meaningful bayesian confirmation,confirmation measure,intermediate case,extreme case,literature focus,bayesian confirmation,weak ex1,symmetry property,bayesian confirmation measure
Data mining,Monotonic function,Forgetting,Discrete mathematics,Logical consequence,Negation,Premise,Homogeneous space,Calculus,Mathematics,Bayesian probability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
127
1-4
0169-2968
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.43
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Salvatore Greco13977266.79
Roman Slowinski25561516.06
Izabela Szczęch3567.90