Functional trees

Machine Learning

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-250

  Gama, João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Multiple models; Multivariate decision trees; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION MAKING; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FUNCTIONAL TREES; MULTIPLE MODELS; MULTIVARIATE DECISION TREES; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 3543051838     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MACH.0000027782.67192.13     Document Type: Article

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