论文信息 - Mining Direct Marketing Data by Ensembles of Weak Learners and Rough Set Methods

Mining Direct Marketing Data by Ensembles of Weak Learners and Rough Set Methods

This paper describes problem of prediction that is based on direct marketing data coming from Nationwide Products and Services Questionnaire (NPSQ) prepared by Polish division of Acxiom Corporation. The problem that we analyze is stated as prediction of accessibility to Internet. Unit of the analysis corresponds to a group of individuals in certain age category living in a certain building located in Poland. We used several machine learning methods to build our prediction models. Particularly, we applied ensembles of weak learners and ModLEM algorithm that is based on rough set approach. Comparison of results generated by these methods is included in the paper. We also report some of problems that we encountered during the analysis.

Wojciech Kotlowski | Krzysztof Dembczynski | Jerzy Blaszczynski | Mariusz Pawlowski

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