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What is Average

Handbook of Research on Fuzzy Information Processing in Databases
In mathematics, an average or central tendency of a data set refers to a measure of the middle of the data set. There are many different descriptive statistics that can be chosen as a measurement of the central tendency. The most common method, and the one generally referred to simply as the average, is the arithmetic mean.
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Fuzzy Imputation Method for Database Systems
J. I. Peláez (University of Málaga, Spain), J. M. Doña (University of Málaga, Spain), and D. La Red (University of National of the Northeast, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-853-6.ch033
Abstract
Missing data is often an actual problem in real data sets, and different imputation techniques are normally used to alleviate this problem. Imputation is a method to fill in missing data with plausible values to produce a complete data set. In this chapter, we analyze the performance of the different traditional data imputation methods. A new fuzzy imputation approach is proposed using ordered weighted average operators and the majority concept. In order to form the majority concept, we propose the use of neat OWA operators and linguistic quantifiers with two fusion strategies for aggregation operators.
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A number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data.
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