Pilar Rey-del-Castillo and Jesús Cardeñosa
Categorical Missing Data Imputation Using Fuzzy Neural Networks with Numerical and Categorical Inputs
1843 - 1850
2009
3
7
International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7285
https://publications.waset.org/vol/31
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
There are many situations where input feature vectors are incomplete and methods to tackle the problem have been studied for a long time. A commonly used procedure is to replace each missing value with an imputation. This paper presents a method to perform categorical missing data imputation from numerical and categorical variables. The imputations are based on Simpsons fuzzy minmax neural networks where the input variables for learning and classification are just numerical. The proposed method extends the input to categorical variables by introducing new fuzzy sets, a new operation and a new architecture. The procedure is tested and compared with others using opinion poll data.
Open Science Index 31, 2009