Approximate Query Answering with Frequent Sets and Maximum Entropy

H. Mannila, P. Smyth
Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Data Engineering (Cat. No.00CB37073)  
We describe an approach to nding approximate answers to Boolean queries on 0 1 data. The basic idea is to build a probabilistic model for the data set and answer the queries on the basis of that model. The method consists of the following steps:
doi:10.1109/icde.2000.839426 dblp:conf/icde/MannilaS00 fatcat:wvafl2cbfzcujlebqv5muutae4