Incremental tree-based missing data imputation with lexicographic ordering

Journal of Classification

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 361-379

  Conversano, Claudio ^a   Siciliano, Roberta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification and regression tree; Data editing; FAST splitting algorithm; Lexicographic order; Missing data; Nonparametric imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 75549086279     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-009-9038-8     Document Type: Article

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