Discretisation in Lazy Learning Algorithms

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1-5, 1997, Pages 157-174

  Ting, Kai Ming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Axis orthogonal representation; Bias; Discretisation; Empirical evaluation; Lazy learning

Indexed keywords

AXIS ORTHOGONAL REPRESENTATION; DISCRETIZATION; LAZY LEARNING;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031070033     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2053-3_6     Document Type: Article

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