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Title: Self-Organizing Maps for Imputation of Missing Data in Incomplete Data Matrices
Authors: Folguera, Laura 
Zupan, Jure 
Cicerone, Daniel 
Magallanes, Jorge 
Keywords: CHEMOMETRICS;ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK;SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS;MISSING DATA IMPUTATION;ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SET
Issue Date: Mar-2015
Publisher: Elsevier Science Bv
Source: Folguera, L. et al (2015). Self-Organizing Maps for Imputation of Missing Data in Incomplete Data Matrices. En: Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. Elsevier Science 143, 146-151
Abstract: 
The problem of incomplete data matrices is repeatedly found in large databases; posing a significant obstacle for an effective treatment of data. This paper examines a self-organizing-map (SOM) based method of data imputation under the concept of distance object per one weight; to predict physicochemical parameters of water samples in a data set where concentrations of different analytes were missed. The method was evaluated according to two different possibilities: (a) including vectors of samples with and without missing data in the training data set and (b) pre-training a SOM for a data set with no missing values and then making imputations for a second data set (prediction set) of samples with missing values. Evaluations were made using a surface water data set of 270 samples from Reconquista River; in Buenos Aires Province; Argentina; by artificially setting a range of 17% to 39% of the data to missing. Results were compared to imputations made through professional criteria. SOMs gave reasonable estimates; with no statistically significant differences from estimates made through professional criteria; proving thus to be a suitable time-saving imputation method.
URI: https://ri.unsam.edu.ar/handle/123456789/1009
ISSN: 0169-7439
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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