RoughSets (version 1.3-8)

RI.AQRules.RST: Rule induction using the AQ algorithm

Description

A version of the AQ algorithm which was originally proposed by R.S. Michalski. This implamentation is based on a concept of a local (object-relative) decision reduct from RST.

Usage

RI.AQRules.RST(decision.table, confidence = 1, timesCovered = 1)

Value

An object of a class "RuleSetRST". For details see RI.indiscernibilityBasedRules.RST.

Arguments

decision.table

an object inheriting from the "DecisionTable" class, which represents a decision system. See SF.asDecisionTable.

confidence

a numeric value giving the minimal confidence of computed rules.

timesCovered

a positive integer. The algorithm will try to find a coverage of training examples with rules, such that each example is covered by at least timesCovered rules and no rule can be removed from the coverage without breaking this property. This is not always possible - there is a chance that some rules are duplicated if the value of timesCovered is larger than 1.

Author

Andrzej Janusz

References

R.S. Michalski, K. Kaufman, J. Wnek: "The AQ Family of Learning Programs: A Review of Recent Developments and an Exemplary Application", Reports of Machine Learning and Inference Laboratory, George Mason University (1991)

See Also

predict.RuleSetFRST, RI.indiscernibilityBasedRules.RST, RI.CN2Rules.RST, RI.LEM2Rules.RST.

Examples

###########################################################
## Example
##############################################################
data(RoughSetData)
wine.data <- RoughSetData$wine.dt
set.seed(13)
wine.data <- wine.data[sample(nrow(wine.data)),]

## Split the data into a training set and a test set,
## 60% for training and 40% for testing:
idx <- round(0.6 * nrow(wine.data))
wine.tra <-SF.asDecisionTable(wine.data[1:idx,],
                              decision.attr = 14,
                              indx.nominal = 14)
wine.tst <- SF.asDecisionTable(wine.data[(idx+1):nrow(wine.data), -ncol(wine.data)])

true.classes <- wine.data[(idx+1):nrow(wine.data), ncol(wine.data)]

## discretization:
cut.values <- D.discretization.RST(wine.tra,
                                   type.method = "unsupervised.quantiles",
                                   nOfIntervals = 3)
data.tra <- SF.applyDecTable(wine.tra, cut.values)
data.tst <- SF.applyDecTable(wine.tst, cut.values)

## rule induction from the training set:
rules <- RI.AQRules.RST(data.tra, confidence = 0.9, timesCovered = 3)
rules

## predicitons for the test set:
pred.vals <- predict(rules, data.tst)

## checking the accuracy of predictions:
mean(pred.vals == true.classes)