Data Reduction Algorithm: Identification and Elimination of Erroneous rows

Data Reduction without the removal of exact, correct rows is a crucial pre-processing step. Large Datasets make it difficult to model data effectively or forecast results accurately. Additionally, they demand lengthy processing times, sophisticated complexity software and thorough data cleaning. The incorrect and irrelevant rows may produce inaccurate results that impair the performance of the model. For better and more accurate outcomes it is crucial to properly detect and remove inaccurate data. The proposed algorithm calculates the Initial Recall value of the Dataset. It eliminates least correlated features using the Correlation Matrix. Using Gaussian Curve, for all the columns it identifies and eliminates rows having values which lie beyond (μ ± 3σ). Furthermore, it takes into account the column with the highest Standard Deviation, selects the nearest 50% Left and 50% Right values from that column's mean. It selects only those rows and calculates the Final Recall value. Negligible difference between Initial and Final Recall values implies that the removed rows had no or minimal impact on the Dataset's final result. This algorithm is implemented on 3 Standard Medical Datasets - Pima Diabetes, Heart Attack and Breast Cancer. For the Breast Cancer Dataset, this algorithm eliminated the highest number of rows that is 231.