Generalized skewing for functions with continuous and nominal attributes

ICML 2005 - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 705-712

  Ray, Soumya ^a   Page, David ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GAIN-BASED DECISION TREE LEARNER; GENERALIZED SKEWING; NOMINAL ATTRIBUTES; REAL WORLD DATASETS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 31844439546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1102351.1102440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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