Software quality modeling: The impact of class noise on the random forest classifier

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3853-3859

  Folleco, Andres ^a   Khoshgoftaar, Taghi M ^a   Van Hulse, Jason ^a   Bullard, Lofton ^a  

^a Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; ENGINEERING MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS; NAIVE BAYES; RANDOM FORESTS; SOFTWARE QUALITIES; SOFTWARE QUALITY CLASSIFICATIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 55749087119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4631321     Document Type: Conference Paper

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