Reliability measures for local nodes assessment in classification trees

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 398-416

  Kuhnert, Petra M ^a,b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Binary classification; Bootstrap; CART; Local assessment; Spatial prediction maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038006364     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/1061860031734     Document Type: Article

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