Bootstrapping to assess and improve atmospheric prediction models

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-41

  Sunil Rao, J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; CART; Classification; Hurricanes; Instability; Supervised learning; Weather data

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044518917     PISSN: 13845810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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