The art of building decision trees

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-52

  Babič, Špela Hleb ^a   Kokol, Peter ^a   Podgorelec, Vili ^a   Zorman, Milan ^a   Šprogar, Matej ^a   Štiglic, Milojka Molan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Art; Decision support systems; Decision trees

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MODEL; RELIABILITY; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACIDOSIS, RESPIRATORY; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DECISION TREES; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034003909     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005437213215     Document Type: Article

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