Classification of Census Using Information Theoretic Measure Based ID3 Algorithm
Ashok Kumar, Harish Chander Taneja, Chitkara Ashok K · 2012
In this paper the concept of information theory is applied in the field of data mining. As in the algorithms of data mining, the classification is an essential step, using an information theoretic measure in ID3 algorithm, one of the key algorithms of decision tree algorithms, we have discussed the different steps of the development of decision tree so that the best classification criteria can be developed which is helpful in making good decisions. From the data under consideration having a set of values, a property on the basis of calculation is selected as the root of the tree and the process is repeated to develop complete decision tree. Further, this method is applied to the data of Census-2011 of India to