Local versus global models for classification problems: Fitting models where it matters

American Statistician

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-131

  Hand, David J ^a   Vinciotti, Veronica ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Inference; Logistic discrimination; Model fitting; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037598692     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/0003130031423     Document Type: Article

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