Combining classifiers with meta decision trees

Machine Learning

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 223-249

  Todorovski, Ljupco ^a   Džeroski, Sašo ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Combining classifiers; Decision trees; Ensembles of classifiers; Meta level learning; Stacking

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SET THEORY;

COMBINING CLASSIFIERS; DATA SETS; LEARNING ORDINARY DECISION TREES; META DECISION TREES; STACKING; VOTING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037365188     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021709817809     Document Type: Article

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