Forecasting daily high ozone concentrations by classification trees

Environmetrics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-153

  Bruno, F ^a   Cocchi, D ^a,b   Trivisano, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Dipto Sci Statistiche P Fortunati   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Classification trees; Ozone exceedance; Unbalanced classes

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FORECASTING METHOD; OZONE; URBAN ATMOSPHERE;

BOLOGNA [BOLOGNA (PRV)]; BOLOGNA [EMILIA-ROMAGNA]; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1642398290     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.631     Document Type: Article

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