Improve decision trees for probability-based ranking by lazy learners

Proceedings - International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 427-435

  Liang, Han ^a,c   Yan, Yuhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c NRC IIT ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY;

EAGER DISTANCE-BASED TREE (EDTREE); FINER RESOLUTION; LAZY DISTANCE-BASED TREE (LDTREE);

DECISION TREES;

EID: 38949126196     PISSN: 10823409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2006.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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