Maximum likelihood regression trees

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 586-598

  Su, Xiaogang ^a   Wang, Morgan ^a   Fan, Juanjuan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CART; Information criteria; Pruning trees; Tree size selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344681291     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186004X2165     Document Type: Article

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