An Application of the Data Mining Methods with Decision Rule

ankings for output of Chinese main agricultural commodity in the world for 1978, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2006, 2007 and 2008 have been released in United Nations FAO Database. Unfortunately, where the ranking of output of Chinese cotton lint in the world for 2008 was missed. This paper uses sequential data mining methods with decision rules filling this gap. This new data mining method will be help to give a further improvement for United Nations FAO Database.

• Xun Ge
• Jianhua Gong

• Ranking
• output of the main agricultural commodity
• gross domestic product
• decision table
• information system
• data mining
• decision rule

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