Missing value imputation using a novel grey based fuzzy c-means, mutual information based feature selection, and regression model

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Highlights:

• A new hybrid method for the imputation of missing values is proposed.

• The method is based on a novel fuzzy c-means, mutual information, and regression.

• Performance of imputation increases by using Grey in the fuzzy c-means algorithm.

• The proposed method outperforms five existing imputation methods, in most cases.

• The proposed method can also provide high classification accuracies.

摘要

•A new hybrid method for the imputation of missing values is proposed.•The method is based on a novel fuzzy c-means, mutual information, and regression.•Performance of imputation increases by using Grey in the fuzzy c-means algorithm.•The proposed method outperforms five existing imputation methods, in most cases.•The proposed method can also provide high classification accuracies.

论文关键词:Missing data imputation,Grey relational analysis,Fuzzy c-means,Mutual information,Regression

论文评审过程:Received 6 January 2018, Revised 26 May 2018, Accepted 28 July 2018, Available online 30 July 2018, Version of Record 11 August 2018.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2018.07.057