Growing decision trees in an ordinal setting

International Journal of Intelligent Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 733-750

  Cao Van, Kim ^a   De Baets, Bernard ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; GRAPHIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

DECISION TREES; MULTICRITERIA DECISION AID;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 0038148641     PISSN: 08848173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/int.10113     Document Type: Article

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