International Business Machines Corporation
DETERMINING THE BEST DATA IMPUTATION ALGORITHMS

Abstract:

A processing system, a computer program product, and a method for determining a best imputation algorithm from a plurality of imputation algorithms A method includes: providing a plurality of imputation algorithms; defining a data analytics task in which at least one step of the data analytics task includes determining at least one missing data value by imputation; executing the data analytics task multiple times wherein each execution of the data analytics task uses a data imputation algorithm of the plurality of data imputation algorithms to determine at least one missing data value; determining an error for each execution of the data analytics task; and selecting an imputation algorithm which results in a least error for the data analytics task.