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most citedA Tutorial on Statistically Sound Pattern Discovery

51 citations · 60 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.IR2018★ 2 cited

Clustering students' open-ended questionnaire answers

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen, Mike Joy, Florian Berger +1

Open responses form a rich but underused source of information in educational data mining and intelligent tutoring systems. One of the major obstacles is the difficulty of clusteri…

cs.AI2017★ 5 cited

Specious rules: an efficient and effective unifying method for removing misleading and uninformative patterns in association rule mining

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen, Geoffrey I. Webb

We present theoretical analysis and a suite of tests and procedures for addressing a broad class of redundant and misleading association rules we call \emph{specious rules}. Specio…

stat.ME2017★ 51 cited

A Tutorial on Statistically Sound Pattern Discovery

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen, Geoffrey I. Webb

Statistically sound pattern discovery harnesses the rigour of statistical hypothesis testing to overcome many of the issues that have hampered standard data mining approaches to pa…

cs.DB2014★ 2 cited

Assessing the statistical significance of association rules

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen

An association rule is statistically significant, if it has a small probability to occur by chance. It is well-known that the traditional frequency-confidence framework does not pr…

cs.DB2014

General upper bounds for well-behaving goodness measures on dependency rules

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen

In the search for statistical dependency rules, a crucial task is to restrict the search space by estimating upper bounds for the goodness of yet undiscovered rules. In this paper,…

stat.CO2014

New tight approximations for Fisher's exact test

Wilhelmiina Hämäläinen

Fisher's exact test is often a preferred method to estimate the significance of statistical dependence. However, in large data sets the test is usually too worksome to be applied,…