Comparison of decision tree methods for finding active objects

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1955-1959

  Zhao, Yongheng ^a   Zhang, Yanxia ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Astronomical data bases: miscellaneous; Catalogs; Decision trees; Methods: data analysis; Methods: statistical; Techniques: miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WAVELENGTH;

ASTRONOMICAL DATA BASES; CATALOGS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREE METHODS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 43049157582     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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