A comparative study of feature-salience ranking techniques

Neural Computation

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1603-1623

  Wang, W ^a   Jones, P ^b   Partridge, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OSTEOPOROSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0035406897     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976601750265027     Document Type: Article

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