Method for building predictive models with incomplete data

摘要

A method that imputes missing values while building a predictive model. A population of solutions is created using a data set comprising missing values, wherein each solution comprises parameters of each of the predictive models and the missing values of a data set. Each of the solutions in a population is checked for fitness. After the fitness is checked, the solutions in a population are genetically evolved to establish a successive population of solutions. The process of evolving and checking fitness is continued until a stopping criterion is reached.