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浙江大学本科生《数据挖掘导论》课件
第4课 数据分类和预测
徐从富，副教授
浙江大学人工智能研究所
内容提纲
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What is classification? What is prediction?
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Issues regarding classification and prediction
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Classification by decision tree induction
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Bayesian Classification
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Prediction
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Summary
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Reference
I.
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Classification vs. Prediction
Classification
 predicts categorical class labels (discrete or nominal)
 classifies data (constructs a model) based on the training
set and the values (class labels) in a classifying attribute
and uses it in classifying new data
Prediction
 models continuous-valued functions, i.e., predicts
unknown or missing values
Typical applications
 Credit approval
 Target marketing
 Medical diagnosis
 Fraud detection
Classification—A Two-Step Process
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Model construction: describing a set of predetermined classes
 Each tuple/sample is assumed to belong to a predefined class, as
determined by the class label attribute
 The set of tuples used for model construction is training set
 The model is represented as classification rules, decision trees, or
mathematical formulae
Model usage: for classifying future or unknown objects
 Estimate accuracy of the model
 The known label of test sample is compared with the classified
result from the model
 Accuracy rate is the percentage of test set samples that are
correctly classified by the model
 Test set is independent of training set, otherwise over-fitting will
occur
 If the accuracy is acceptable, use the model to classify data tuples
whose class labels are not known
Classification Process (1): Model Construction
Training
Data
NAME
M ike
M ary
B ill
Jim
D ave
Anne
RANK
YEARS TENURED
A ssistan t P ro f
3
no
A ssistan t P ro f
7
yes
P ro fesso r
2
yes
A sso ciate P ro f
7
yes
A ssistan t P ro f
6
no
A sso ciate P ro f
3
no
Classification
Algorithms
Classifier
(Model)
IF rank = ‘professor’
OR years > 6
THEN tenured = ‘yes’
Classification Process (2): Use the Model in Prediction
Classifier
Testing
Data
Unseen Data
(Jeff, Professor, 4)
NAME
Tom
M erlisa
G eo rg e
Jo sep h
RANK
YEARS TENURED
A ssistan t P ro f
2
no
A sso ciate P ro f
7
no
P ro fesso r
5
yes
A ssistan t P ro f
7
yes
Tenured?
Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning
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Supervised learning (classification)
 Supervision: The
training data (observations,
measurements, etc.) are accompanied by labels
indicating the class of the observations
 New
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data is classified based on the training set
Unsupervised learning (clustering)
 The
class labels of training data is unknown
 Given
a set of measurements, observations, etc. with the
aim of establishing the existence of classes or clusters in
the data
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Issues Regarding Classification and
Prediction (1): Data Preparation
Data cleaning
 Preprocess
data in order to reduce noise and handle
missing values
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Relevance analysis (feature selection)
 Remove
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the irrelevant or redundant attributes
Data transformation
 Generalize and/or
normalize data
Issues regarding classification and prediction
(2): Evaluating classification methods
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Accuracy: classifier accuracy and predictor accuracy
Speed and scalability
 time to construct the model (training time)
 time to use the model (classification/prediction time)
Robustness
 handling noise and missing values
Scalability
 efficiency in disk-resident databases
Interpretability
 understanding and insight provided by the model
Other measures, e.g., goodness of rules, such as decision tree
size or compactness of classification rules
III.
Decision Tree Induction: Training
Dataset
This
follows an
example of
Quinlan’s
ID3
(Playing
Tennis)
age
<=30
<=30
31…40
>40
>40
>40
31…40
<=30
<=30
>40
<=30
31…40
31…40
>40
income student credit_rating
high
no
fair
high
no
excellent
high
no
fair
medium
no
fair
low
yes
fair
low
yes
excellent
low
yes
excellent
medium
no
fair
low
yes
fair
medium
yes
fair
medium
yes
excellent
medium
no
excellent
high
yes
fair
medium
no
excellent
buys_computer
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Output: A Decision Tree for “buys_computer”
age?
<=30
student?
overcast
30..40
yes
>40
credit rating?
no
yes
excellent
fair
no
yes
no
yes
Algorithm for Decision Tree Induction
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Basic algorithm (a greedy algorithm)
 Tree is constructed in a top-down recursive divide-and-conquer
manner
 At start, all the training examples are at the root
 Attributes are categorical (if continuous-valued, they are
discretized in advance)
 Examples are partitioned recursively based on selected attributes
 Test attributes are selected on the basis of a heuristic or statistical
measure (e.g., information gain)
Conditions for stopping partitioning
 All samples for a given node belong to the same class
 There are no remaining attributes for further partitioning –
majority voting is employed for classifying the leaf
 There are no samples left
Attribute Selection Measure: Information
Gain (ID3/C4.5)
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Select the attribute with the highest information gain
S contains si tuples of class Ci for i = {1, …, m}
information measures info required to classify any arbitrary
m
tuple
si
si
I( s1,s2,...,sm)   log 2
s
i 1 s
entropy of attribute A with values {a1,a2,…,av}
v
s1 j  ...  smj
E(A)  
I (s1 j ,..., smj )
s
j 1
information gained by branching on attribute A
Gain(A)  I(s1 ,s2 ,...,sm )  E(A)
Attribute Selection by Information Gain Computation
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Class P: buys_computer = “yes”
Class N: buys_computer = “no”
I(p, n) = I(9, 5) =0.940
Compute the entropy for age:
age
<=30
30…40
>40
age
<=30
<=30
31…40
>40
>40
>40
31…40
<=30
<=30
>40
<=30
31…40
31…40
>40
pi
2
4
3
ni I(pi, ni)
3 0.971
0 0
2 0.971
income student credit_rating
high
no
fair
high
no
excellent
high
no
fair
medium
no
fair
low
yes fair
low
yes excellent
low
yes excellent
medium
no
fair
low
yes fair
medium
yes fair
medium
yes excellent
medium
no
excellent
high
yes fair
medium
no
excellent
buys_computer
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
5
4
I (2,3) 
I ( 4,0)
14
14
5

I (3,2)  0.694
14
E (age) 
5
I (2,3) means “age <=30” has 5
14
out of 14 samples, with 2
yes’es and 3 no’s. Hence,
Gain(age)  I ( p, n)  E (age)  0.246
Similarly,
Gain(income)  0.029
Gain( student )  0.151
Gain(credit _ rating )  0.048
Computing Information-Gain for
Continuous-Value Attributes
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Let attribute A be a continuous-valued attribute
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Must determine the best split point for A
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Sort the value A in increasing order
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Typically, the midpoint between each pair of adjacent values is considered
as a possible split point
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(ai+ai+1)/2 is the midpoint between the values of ai and ai+1
The point with the minimum expected information requirement for A is
selected as the split-point for A
Split:
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D1 is the set of tuples in D satisfying A ≤ split-point, and D2 is the set of
tuples in D satisfying A > split-point
Extracting Classification Rules from Trees
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Represent the knowledge in the form of IF-THEN rules
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One rule is created for each path from the root to a leaf
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Each attribute-value pair along a path forms a conjunction
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The leaf node holds the class prediction
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Rules are easier for humans to understand
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Example
IF age = “<=30” AND student = “no” THEN buys_computer = “no”
IF age = “<=30” AND student = “yes” THEN buys_computer = “yes”
IF age = “31…40”
THEN buys_computer = “yes”
IF age = “>40” AND credit_rating = “excellent” THEN buys_computer = “yes”
IF age = “<=30” AND credit_rating = “fair” THEN buys_computer = “no”
Avoid Overfitting in Classification
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Overfitting: An induced tree may overfit the training data
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Too many branches, some may reflect anomalies due to noise or
outliers
 Poor accuracy for unseen samples
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Two approaches to avoid overfitting
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Prepruning: Halt tree construction early—do not split a node if this
would result in the goodness measure falling below a threshold
 Difficult to choose an appropriate threshold
 Postpruning: Remove branches from a “fully grown” tree—get a
sequence of progressively pruned trees
 Use a set of data different from the training data to decide
which is the “best pruned tree”
Approaches to Determine the Final Tree
Size
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Separate training (2/3) and testing (1/3) sets
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Use cross validation
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Use all the data for training
 but
apply a statistical test (e.g., chi-square) to estimate
whether expanding or pruning a node may improve the
entire distribution
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Enhancements to Basic Decision Tree
Induction
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Allow for continuous-valued attributes
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Dynamically define new discrete-valued attributes that partition the
continuous attribute value into a discrete set of intervals
Handle missing attribute values
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Assign the most common value of the attribute
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Assign probability to each of the possible values
Attribute construction
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Create new attributes based on existing ones that are sparsely
represented
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This reduces fragmentation, repetition, and replication
Classification in Large Databases
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Classification—a classical problem extensively studied by
statisticians and machine learning researchers
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Scalability: Classifying data sets with millions of examples and
hundreds of attributes with reasonable speed
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Why decision tree induction in data mining?
 relatively faster
learning speed (than other classification
methods)
 convertible to simple and easy to understand classification
rules
 can use SQL queries for accessing databases
 comparable classification accuracy with other methods
Scalable Decision Tree Induction Methods
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SLIQ (EDBT’96 — Mehta et al.)
 builds an index for each attribute and only class list and the
current attribute list reside in memory
SPRINT (VLDB’96 — J. Shafer et al.)
 constructs an attribute list data structure
PUBLIC (VLDB’98 — Rastogi & Shim)
 integrates tree splitting and tree pruning: stop growing the tree
earlier
RainForest (VLDB’98 — Gehrke, Ramakrishnan & Ganti)
 separates the scalability aspects from the criteria that
determine the quality of the tree
 builds an AVC-list (attribute, value, class label)
Presentation of Classification Results
Visualization of a Decision Tree in SGI/MineSet 3.0
Interactive Visual Mining by Perception-Based
Classification (PBC)
IV. Bayesian Classification: Why?
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Probabilistic learning: Calculate explicit probabilities for
hypothesis, among the most practical approaches to certain types
of learning problems
Incremental: Each training example can incrementally
increase/decrease the probability that a hypothesis is correct.
Prior knowledge can be combined with observed data.
Probabilistic prediction: Predict multiple hypotheses, weighted
by their probabilities
Standard: Even when Bayesian methods are computationally
intractable, they can provide a standard of optimal decision
making against which other methods can be measured
Bayesian Theorem: Basics
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Let X be a data sample whose class label is unknown
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Let H be a hypothesis that X belongs to class C
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For classification problems, determine P(H|X): the probability
that the hypothesis holds given the observed data sample X
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P(H): prior probability of hypothesis H (i.e. the initial
probability before we observe any data, reflects the
background knowledge)
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P(X): probability that sample data is observed
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P(X|H): probability of observing the sample X, given that the
hypothesis holds
Bayesian Theorem
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Given training data X, posteriori probability of a hypothesis H,
P(H|X) follows the Bayes theorem
P(H | X )  P( X | H )P(H )
P( X )
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Informally, this can be written as
posteriori = likelihood x prior / evidence
MAP (maximum posteriori) hypothesis
h
 arg max P(h | D)  arg max P(D | h)P(h).
MAP hH
hH
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Practical difficulty: require initial knowledge of many
probabilities, significant computational cost
Naïve Bayes Classifier
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A simplified assumption: attributes are conditionally independent:
n
P( X | C i)   P( x k | C i)
k 1
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The product of occurrence of say 2 elements x1 and x2, given the
current class is C, is the product of the probabilities of each
element taken separately, given the same class P([y1,y2], C) =
P(y1, C) * P(y2, C)
No dependence relation between attributes
Greatly reduces the computation cost, only count the class
distribution.
Once the probability P(X|Ci) is known, assign X to the class with
maximum P(X|Ci) * P(Ci)
Training dataset
Class:
C1:buys_computer=
‘yes’
C2:buys_computer=
‘no’
Data sample
X =(age<=30,
Income=medium,
Student=yes
Credit_rating=
Fair)
age
<=30
<=30
30…40
>40
>40
>40
31…40
<=30
<=30
>40
<=30
31…40
31…40
>40
income student credit_rating
high
no fair
high
no excellent
high
no fair
medium
no fair
low
yes fair
low
yes excellent
low
yes excellent
medium
no fair
low
yes fair
medium
yes fair
medium
yes excellent
medium
no excellent
high
yes fair
medium
no excellent
buys_computer
no
no
yes
yes
yes
no
yes
no
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
no
Naïve Bayesian Classifier: An
Example
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Compute P(X|Ci) for each class
P(age=“<30” | buys_computer=“yes”) = 2/9=0.222
P(age=“<30” | buys_computer=“no”) = 3/5 =0.6
P(income=“medium” | buys_computer=“yes”)= 4/9 =0.444
P(income=“medium” | buys_computer=“no”) = 2/5 = 0.4
P(student=“yes” | buys_computer=“yes)= 6/9 =0.667
P(student=“yes” | buys_computer=“no”)= 1/5=0.2
P(credit_rating=“fair” | buys_computer=“yes”)=6/9=0.667
P(credit_rating=“fair” | buys_computer=“no”)=2/5=0.4
X=(age<=30 , income =medium, student=yes, credit_rating=fair)
P(X|Ci) : P(X|buys_computer=“yes”)= 0.222 x 0.444 x 0.667 x 0.0.667 =0.044
P(X|buys_computer=“no”)= 0.6 x 0.4 x 0.2 x 0.4 =0.019
P(X|Ci)*P(Ci ) : P(X|buys_computer=“yes”) * P(buys_computer=“yes”)=0.028
P(X|buys_computer=“no”) * P(buys_computer=“no”)=0.007
Therefore, X belongs to class “buys_computer=yes”
Naïve Bayesian Classifier: Comments
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Advantages
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Easy to implement
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Good results obtained in most of the cases
Disadvantages
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Assumption: class conditional independence, therefore loss of accuracy
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Practically, dependencies exist among variables
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E.g., hospitals: patients: Profile: age, family history etc
Symptoms: fever, cough etc., Disease: lung cancer, diabetes etc
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Dependencies among these cannot be modeled by Naïve Bayesian
Classifier
How to deal with these dependencies?
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Bayesian Belief Networks
Bayesian Belief Networks
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Bayesian belief network allows a subset of the variables
conditionally independent
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A graphical model of causal relationships
 Represents
dependency among the variables
 Gives a specification of joint probability distribution
Nodes: random variables
X
Z
Links: dependency
Y
X,Y are the parents of Z, and Y is the parent of P
No dependency between Z and P
P
Has no loops or cycles
Bayesian Belief Network: An Example
Family
History
Smoker
(FH, S)
LungCancer
PositiveXRay
Emphysema
Dyspnea
Bayesian Belief Networks
(FH, ~S) (~FH, S) (~FH, ~S)
LC
0.8
0.5
0.7
0.1
~LC
0.2
0.5
0.3
0.9
The conditional probability table
for the variable LungCancer:
Shows the conditional probability
for each possible combination of its
parents
n
P( z1,..., zn ) 
 P( z i | Parents( Z i ))
i 1
Learning Bayesian Networks
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Several cases
 Given both the network structure and all variables
observable: learn only the CPTs
 Network structure known, some hidden variables: method
of gradient descent, analogous to neural network learning
 Network structure unknown, all variables observable:
search through the model space to reconstruct graph
topology
 Unknown structure, all hidden variables: no good
algorithms known for this purpose
D. Heckerman, Bayesian networks for data mining
V.
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(Numerical) prediction is similar to classification
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Classification refers to predict categorical class label
Prediction models continuous-valued functions
Major method for prediction: regression
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construct a model
use model to predict continuous or ordered value for a given input
Prediction is different from classification
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What Is Prediction?
model the relationship between one or more independent or predictor
variables and a dependent or response variable
Regression analysis
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Linear and multiple regression
Non-linear regression
Other regression methods: generalized linear model, Poisson regression,
log-linear models, regression trees
Linear Regression
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Linear regression: involves a response variable y and a single
predictor variable x，y = w0 + w1x
where w0 (y-intercept) and w1 (slope) are regression coefficients
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Method of least squares: estimates the best-fitting straight line
| D|
w 
1
 (x
i 1
i
| D|
 (x
i 1
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 x )( yi  y )
i
 x)
2
w  y w x
0
1
Multiple linear regression: involves more than one predictor
variable
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Training data is of the form (X1, y1), (X2, y2),…, (X|D|, y|D|)
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Ex. For 2-D data, we may have: y = w0 + w1 x1+ w2 x2
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Solvable by extension of least square method or using SAS, S-Plus
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Many nonlinear functions can be transformed into the above
Nonlinear Regression
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Some nonlinear models can be modeled by a polynomial function
A polynomial regression model can be transformed into linear
regression model. For example,
y = w0 + w1 x + w2 x2 + w3 x3
convertible to linear with new variables: x2 = x2, x3= x3
y = w0 + w1 x + w2 x2 + w3 x3
Other functions, such as power function, can also be transformed
to linear model
Some models are intractable nonlinear (e.g., sum of exponential
terms)
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possible to obtain least square estimates through extensive calculation on
more complex formulae
Other Regression-Based Models
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Generalized linear model:
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Foundation on which linear regression can be applied to modeling
categorical response variables
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Variance of y is a function of the mean value of y, not a constant
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Logistic regression: models the prob. of some event occurring as a linear
function of a set of predictor variables
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Poisson regression: models the data that exhibit a Poisson distribution
Log-linear models: (for categorical data)
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Approximate discrete multidimensional prob. distributions
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Also useful for data compression and smoothing
Regression trees and model trees
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Trees to predict continuous values rather than class labels
Regression Trees and Model Trees
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Regression tree: proposed in CART system (Breiman et al. 1984)
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CART: Classification And Regression Trees
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Each leaf stores a continuous-valued prediction
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It is the average value of the predicted attribute for the training tuples that
reach the leaf
Model tree: proposed by Quinlan (1992)
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Each leaf holds a regression model—a multivariate linear equation for the
predicted attribute
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A more general case than regression tree
Regression and model trees tend to be more accurate than linear
regression when the data are not represented well by a simple
linear model
Predictive Modeling in Multidimensional
Databases
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Predictive modeling: Predict data values or construct
generalized linear models based on the database data
One can only predict value ranges or category distributions
Method outline:
 Minimal generalization
 Attribute relevance analysis
 Generalized linear model construction
 Prediction
Determine the major factors which influence the prediction
 Data relevance analysis: uncertainty measurement, entropy
analysis, expert judgement, etc.
Multi-level prediction: drill-down and roll-up analysis
Prediction: Numerical Data
Prediction: Categorical Data
VI. Summary
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Classification and prediction are two forms of data analysis that can be used
to extract models describing important data classes or to predict future data
trends.
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Effective and scalable methods have been developed for decision trees
induction, Naive Bayesian classification, Bayesian belief network, rulebased classifier, Backpropagation, Support Vector Machine (SVM),
associative classification, nearest neighbor classifiers, and case-based
reasoning, and other classification methods such as genetic algorithms, rough
set and fuzzy set approaches.
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Linear, nonlinear, and generalized linear models of regression can be used
for prediction. Many nonlinear problems can be converted to linear
problems by performing transformations on the predictor variables.
Regression trees and model trees are also used for prediction.
VII. Reference
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J. R. Quinlan. Induction of decision trees. Machine Learning,
1:81-106, 1986.
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J. R. Quinlan. C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning. Morgan
Kaufmann, 1993.
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R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart, and D. G. Stork. Pattern Classification
(2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons, 2001.
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T. M. Mitchell. Machine Learning. McGraw Hill, 1997.