A classification tree application to predict total ship loss

Journal of Transportation and Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 31-42

  Kokotos, Dimitris X ^a   Smirlis, Yiannis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Ship accidents; Total ship loss

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645469188     PISSN: 10948848     EISSN: 10948848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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