Induction of decision trees using genetic programming for modelling ecotoxicity data: Adaptive discretization of real-valued endpoints

SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 451-471

  Wang, X Z ^a   Buontempo, F V ^a   Young, A ^b   Osborn, D ^c  

^a Institute of Particle Science Engineering   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Discretization; Genetic and evolutionary programming; Inductive learning; QSAR; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; DECISION TREES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

DECISION TREE INDUCTION; DISCRETIZATIONS; ECOTOXICITY DATA; GREEDY SEARCH; INDUCTIVE LEARNING; QSAR; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING; SPLITTINGS; TOXICITY ENDPOINTS;

TOXICITY;

EID: 33749381635     PISSN: 1062936X     EISSN: 1029046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360600933723     Document Type: Article

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