[HTML][HTML] An overview of synthetic administrative data for research

T Kokosi, B De Stavola, R Mitra, L Frayling… - … Journal of Population …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Use of administrative data for research and for planning services has increased over recent
decades due to the value of the large, rich information available. However, concerns about …

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

AM Sefidian, N Daneshpour - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
The presence of missing values in real-world data is not only a prevalent problem but also
an inevitable one. Therefore, missing values should be handled carefully before the mining …

A Bayesian network approach incorporating imputation of missing data enables exploratory analysis of complex causal biological relationships

R Howey, AD Clark, N Naamane, LN Reynard… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Bayesian networks can be used to identify possible causal relationships between variables
based on their conditional dependencies and independencies, which can be particularly …

Spatial targeting of agri-environmental policy using bilevel evolutionary optimization

G Whittaker, R Färe, S Grosskopf, B Barnhart… - Omega, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study we describe the optimal designation of agri-environmental policy as a bilevel
optimization problem and propose an integrated solution method using a hybrid genetic …

Bayesian networks for imputation in classification problems

ER Hruschka, ER Hruschka, NFF Ebecken - Journal of Intelligent …, 2007 - Springer
Missing values are an important problem in data mining. In order to tackle this problem in
classification tasks, we propose two imputation methods based on Bayesian networks …

FINNIM: Iterative imputation of missing values in dissolved gas analysis dataset

Z Sahri, R Yusof, J Watada - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Missing values are a common occurrence in a number of real world databases, and
statistical methods have been developed to deal with this problem, referred to as missing …

[PDF][PDF] Using Bayesian networks to create synthetic data

J Young, P Graham, R Penny - Journal of Official Statistics, 2009 - researchgate.net
A Bayesian network is a graphical model of the joint probability distribution for a set of
variables. A Bayesian network could be used to create multiple synthetic data sets that are …

Effective Bayesian-network-based missing value imputation enhanced by crowdsourcing

C Ye, H Wang, W Lu, J Li - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
During the process of data collection, incompleteness is one of the most serious data quality
problems to deal with. Traditional imputation methods mostly rely on statistics and machine …

Valuing water quality tradeoffs at different spatial scales: An integrated approach using bilevel optimization

M Bostian, G Whittaker, B Barnhart, R Färe… - Water Resources and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the tradeoff between agricultural production and water quality at both
the watershed scale and the farm scale, using an integrated economic-biophysical hybrid …

Network self-exciting point processes to measure health impacts of COVID-19

P Giudici, P Pagnottoni, A Spelta - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The assessment of the health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic requires the consideration
of mobility networks. To this aim, we propose to augment spatio-temporal point process …