Growing Simpler Decision Trees to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery

Proceedings - 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 315-318

  Cherkauer, Kevin J ^a   Shavlik, Jude W ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

GENETIC SEARCH; INPUT FEATURES; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; REAL-WORLD DATASETS; SIMPLE++; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE TEST;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 0000957157     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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