Partial classification: The benefit of deferred decision

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 769-776

  Baram, Yoram ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision making; Hypothesis testing; Machine learning; Medical diagnosis; Pattern recognition; Stock trading

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEDICAL COMPUTING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PARTIAL CLASSIFICATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032136710     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.709564     Document Type: Article

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