A comparative assessment of classification methods

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 441-454

  Kiang, Melody Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification methods; Machine learning; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

MULTICOLLINEARITY;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 0038636391     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(02)00110-0     Document Type: Article

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