Variance reduction trends on 'boosted' classifiers

Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 141-154

  Wheway, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boosting; Classification; Ensemble classifiers; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449123637     PISSN: 11739126     EISSN: 15327612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327612jamd0803_1     Document Type: Article

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