Customized Instance Random Undersampling to Increase Knowledge Management for Multiclass Imbalanced Data Classification

Claudia C. Tusell-Rey, Oscar Camacho-Nieto, Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez () and Yenny Villuendas-Rey ()
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Claudia C. Tusell-Rey: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Av. Juan de Dios Bátiz s/n, GAM, Ciudad de México 07700, Mexico
Oscar Camacho-Nieto: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Cómputo, Av. Juan de Dios Bátiz s/n, GAM, Ciudad de México 07700, Mexico
Cornelio Yáñez-Márquez: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Av. Juan de Dios Bátiz s/n, GAM, Ciudad de México 07700, Mexico
Yenny Villuendas-Rey: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Cómputo, Av. Juan de Dios Bátiz s/n, GAM, Ciudad de México 07700, Mexico

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-16

Abstract: Imbalanced data constitutes a challenge for knowledge management. This problem is even more complex in the presence of hybrid (numeric and categorical data) having missing values and multiple decision classes. Unfortunately, health-related information is often multiclass, hybrid, and imbalanced. This paper introduces a novel undersampling procedure that deals with multiclass hybrid data. We explore its impact on the performance of the recently proposed customized naïve associative classifier (CNAC). The experiments made, and the statistical analysis, show that the proposed method surpasses existing classifiers, with the advantage of being able to deal with multiclass, hybrid, and incomplete data with a low computational cost. In addition, our experiments showed that the CNAC benefits from data sampling; therefore, we recommend using the proposed undersampling procedure to balance data for CNAC.

Keywords: imbalanced data classification; knowledge management; undersampling; decision-making; artificial intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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