Performance of localized regression tree splitting criteria on data with discontinuities

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 367-381

  Bremner, Alexandra P ^a   Taplin, Ross H ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exploratory data analysis; Tree averaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044234655     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2004.00336.x     Document Type: Article

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