Statistical themes and lessons for data mining

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-28

  Glymour, Clark ^a,e,f   Madigan, David ^b   Pregibon, Daryl ^c   Smyth, Padhraic ^d,g  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d University of California   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Modeling; Statistics; Uncertainty; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 21744454917     PISSN: 13845810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009773905005     Document Type: Article

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