TY - BOOK AU - Garcia,Salvador AU - Luengo,Julian AU - Herrera,Francisco TI - Data preprocessing in data mining T2 - Intelligent systems reference library ; SN - 9783319102467 U1 - 006.312 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Switzerland PB - Springer KW - Data mining. KW - Electronic data processing KW - Data preparation N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Data Sets and Proper Statistical Analysis of Data Mining Techniques -- 3. Data Preparation Basic Models -- 4. Dealing with Missing Values -- 5. Dealing with Noisy Data -- 6. Data Reduction -- 7. Feature Selection -- 8. Instance Selection -- 9. Discretization -- 10. A Data Mining Software Package Including Data Preparation and Reduction: KEEL -- Index N2 - This book is intended to review the tasks that fill the gap between the data acquisition from the source and the data mining process. A comprehensive look from a practical point of view, including basic concepts and surveying the techniques proposed in the specialized literature, is given.Each chapter is a stand-alone guide to a particular data preprocessing topic, from basic concepts and detailed descriptions of classical algorithms, to an incursion of an exhaustive catalog of recent developments. The in-depth technical descriptions make this book suitable for technical professionals, researchers, senior undergraduate and graduate students in data science, computer science and engineering ER -