“…The theory of rough sets, proposed by Pawlak [28], has recently been used to analyze data sets for such a purpose. This theory is an extension of classical set theory for the study of systems characterized by insufficient and incomplete information, and has been demonstrated to be useful in fields such as pattern recognition, machine learning, and automated knowledge acquisition [14,27,[30][31][32]46,48]. Rough-set data analysis uses only internal knowledge, avoids external parameters, and does not rely on prior model assumptions such as probabilistic distribution in statistical methods, membership function in fuzzy sets theory, and basic probability assignment in Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence [7,33].…”