Split selection methods for classification trees

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 815-840

  Loh, Wei Yin ^a,b   Shin, Yu Shan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Discriminant analysis; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031312210     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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