Constructing rule-based models using the belief functions framework

Abstract. We study a new approach to regression analysis. We propose a new rule-based regression model using the theoretical framework of belief functions. For this purpose we use the recently proposed Evidential c-means (ECM) to derive rule-based models solely from data. ECM allocates, for each object, a mass of belief to any subsets of possible clusters, which allows to gain a deeper insight on the data while being robust with respect to outliers. The proposed rule-based models convey this added information as the examples illustrate