Determining the Efficacy of Data-Mining Methods in Predicting Gaming Ballot Outcomes

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-332

  Delen, Dursun ^a   Sirakaya, Ercan ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial neural networks; data mining; decision trees; forecasting ballot outcomes; gambling ballots; k fold cross validations; political forecasting; rough sets

Indexed keywords

EID: 38049081841     PISSN: 10963480     EISSN: 15577554     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1096348006286795     Document Type: Article

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