Learning reliable classifiers from small or incomplete data sets: The naive credal classifier 2

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages 581-621

  Corani, Giorgio ^a   Zaffalon, Marco ^a  

^a DALLE MOLLE INSTITUTE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IDSIA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conservative inference rule; Imprecise probabilities; Missing at random; Missing values; Naive bayes; Naive credal classifier

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; GENERAL (CO); INCOMPLETE DATA; MISSING VALUES (GAPS); NAIVE BAYES (NB); SMALL SAMPLES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 44649172521     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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