Generating synthetic data from marginal fitting for testing the efficacy of data-mining tools

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2711-2730

  Jeske, D R ^a   Gokhale, D V ^a   Ye, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wells Fargo Regional Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Data mining tools; Iterative proportional fitting; Log linear models

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148848969     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540600622514     Document Type: Article

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