Is inductive machine learning just another wild goose (or might it lay the golden egg)?

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-92

  Gahegan, Mark ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0037281210     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713811742     Document Type: Article

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