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Published in final edited form as: Knowl Inf Syst. 2015 Aug 25;48(1):201–228. doi: 10.1007/s10115-015-0870-3

Table 1.

Description of the datasets used in our experiments. For brevity, we used several acronyms which are explained here. Nu:Numeric, No:Nominal, CA:Caucasian, AA:African American, NReH:Not Re-Hospitalized, ReH:Re-Hospitalized, Emp:Employment, Rel:Religion, Park:Parkinson.

Dataset Features Source Majority Source Minority Target Majority Target Minority
HF (Race) Nu : 2
No : 20
AA
NReH
4468 (78.0%)
AA
ReH
1026 (17.9%)
CA
NReH
≈183 (3.2%)
CA
ReH
≈50 (0.9%)
HF (Age) Nu : 1
No : 21
Over 50
NReH
4513 (75.4%)
Over 50
ReH
1182 (19.8%)
Under 50
NReH
≈241 (4.0%)
Under 50
ReH
≈50 (0.8%)
HF (Gender) Nu : 2
No : 20
Male
NReH
3366 (75.7%)
Male
ReH
818 (18.4%)
Female
NReH
≈211 (4.8%)
Female
ReH
≈50 (1.1%)
Emp (Rel) Nu : 5
No : 3
Muslim
Un-employed
955 (74%)
Muslim
Employed
298 (23%)
Non-Muslim
Un-employed
15 (0.02%)
Non-Muslim
Employed
7 (0.006%)
Park (Gender) Nu : 19
No : 0
Male
UPDRS≥10
3732 (89%)
Male
UPDRS<10
276 (8%)
Female
UPDRS≥10
112 (0.03%)
Female
UPDRS<10
13(0.003%)
REC vs TALK Nu : 500
No : 0
rec
.autos
.motorcycles
1009
talk
.politics.guns
.politics.misc
20,50,101
2%,5%,10%
rec
.sports.baseball
.sports.hockey
472,453,393
2%,5%,10%
talk
.politics.mideast
.religion.misc
10,23,39
2%,5%,10%
REC vs SCI Nu : 500
No : 0
rec
.autos
.sports.baseball
1187
sci
.sci.crypt
.sci.space
24,59,119
2%,5%,10%
rec
.motorcycles
.sports.hockey
486,518,543
2%,5%,10%
sci
.sci.electronics
.sci.med
10,26,55
2%,5%,10%
SCI vs TALK Nu : 500
No : 0
sci
.sci.med
.sci.electronics
840
talk
.politics.misc
.religion.misc
17,42,84
2%,5%,10%
sci
.sci.crypt
.sci.space
513,529,507
2%,5%,10%
talk
.politics.guns
.politics.mideast
10,26,51
2%,5%,10%