Title
Detection of sentinel predictor-class associations with XCS: a sensitivity analysis
Abstract
Knowledge discovery in databases has traditionally focused on classification, prediction, or in the case of unsupervised discovery, clusters and class definitions. Equally important, however, is the discovery of individual predictors along a continuum of some metric that indicates their association with a particular class. This paper reports on the use of an XCS learning classifier system for this purpose. Conducted over a range of odds ratios for a fixed variable in synthetic data, it was found that XCS discovers rules that contain metric information about specific predictors and their relationship to a given class. In addition, EpiXCS performs qualitatively similarly to See5, and both methods are comparable to logistic regression.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1145/1102256.1102269
GECCO '05 Proceedings of the 7th annual workshop on Genetic and evolutionary computation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
sensitivity analysis,odd ratio,learning classifier system,synthetic data,variable selection,statistical computing,logistic regression,statistical analysis
Conference
4399
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
1
0.35
References 
Authors
4
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John H. Holmes1787.55