Inductive learning from numerical and symbolic data: An integrated framework

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 445-461

  Esposito, Floriana ^a   Malerba, Donato ^a   Marengo, Vittorio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

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CALCULATIONS; DATA HANDLING; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MACHINE LEARNING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

COMBINATION OF CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGY; DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL INFORMATION; PROPOSITIONAL CALCULUS; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS; SYMBOLIC DATA ANALYSIS;

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EID: 0345028831     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2001-5602     Document Type: Article

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