Assessing the stability of classification trees using Florida birth data

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 12 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 3917-3929

  Kitsantas, Panagiota ^a   Hollander, Myles ^b   Li, Lei M ^c  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification trees; Cost function; Misclassification costs; Predictive performance; Prior probabilities; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547858125     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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