Research Article

Toward a General-Purpose Heterogeneous Ensemble for Pattern Classification

Table 2

UCI datasets and their features: number of attributes (#A), number of samples (#S), and number of classes (#C).

DatasetAcronym#A#S#CBrief description

BREAST BR96992For breast tumor diagnosis

HEART HE133032For detecting heart disease; the “goal” field refers to the presence of heart disease in the patient

PIMA PI87682For forecasting the onset of diabetes mellitus

Spam SP5746012For classifying E-mail as spam or nonspam

SONAR SO602082For discriminating between sonar signals bounced off a metal cylinder and those bounced off a rough cylindrical rock

IONOSPHERE IO343512For classifying radar returns from the ionosphere

Liver LI73452For classifying liver disorders that might arise from excessive alcohol consumption

Haberman HA33062A dataset that contains cases on the survival of patients who had undergone surgery for breast cancer

Vote VO164352For classifying Republican versus Democrat US representatives (this dataset includes votes for each member of the US House of Representatives on 16 key votes)

Australian AU146902For credit card applications

Transfusion TR57482This study adopted the donor database of Blood Transfusion Service Center; the aim is to predict whether a person donated blood in March, 2007