声明
Abstract
摘要
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 The aim and objectives of the study
1.4 Outline of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Classification and Prediction
2.2 Decision Tree Induction
2.3 Merits and Demerits of Decision Trees
2.4 Decision Tree Algorithms
2.5 Related work
2.6 Discussion
2.7 Summary
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Supervised vs Unsupervised Discretization
3.2 Dealing with Missing Values
3.3 Dealing with Attribute Selection and Reduction
3.4 Type and Distribution of Data
3.5 Effects of Increased Workload
3.6 Accuracy Evaluation
3.7 Summary
Chapter Four Results and Analysis
4.1 Preamble
4.2 Experiments and Results of Discretization
4.3 Experiments and Results for Missing Values
4.4 Experiments on Attribute Selection and Reduction
4.5 Experiments on Type and Distribution of Data
4.6 Experiments on Effects of Increased Workload
4.7 Experiments on Performance of the Algorithms Based on Accuracy
4,8 Results Analysis
4.9 Further Experiments Based on Kenya Population Census Data
4.10 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion and Future Work
References
Acknowledgement
Publications
Appendix Summarized Kenyan Population Census Data Collumn Abrreviations-Collumn Names