Using the non-parametric classifier CART to model forest tree mortality

Forest Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 507-516

  Dobbertin, Matthias ^a   Biging, Gregory S ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Logistic regression; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIRES; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL RESOURCES; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BINARY DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER; BINARY RECURSIVE SPLITTING; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES; TREE MORTALITY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 0032212038     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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