Constructing decision tree with continuous attributes for binary classification

Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 617-622

  Jiang, Yan Huang ^a   Zhou, Hai Fang ^a   Yang, Xue Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Information gain; Machine learning; Range splitting for continuous attributes (RCAT)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; ESTIMATION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

DECISION TREE; INFORMATION GAIN; MULTISPLITTING ALGORITHM;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036925067     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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