A similarity measure to assess the stability of classification trees

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1208-1217

  Briand, Bénédicte ^a   Ducharme, Gilles R ^b   Parache, Vanessa ^a   Mercat Rommens, Catherine ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

CLASSIFICATION TREES; INPUT VARIABLES; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SMALL PERTURBATIONS; SYNTHETIC DATA;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 58749100445     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.10.033     Document Type: Article

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