Learning to classify ordinal data: The data replication method

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 1393-1429

  Cardoso, Jaime S ^a   Pinto Da Costa, Joaquim F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Classification; Neural networks; Ordinal data; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DATA SETS; ORDINAL DATA;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 34547698831     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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