Using "blackbox" algorithms such as treenet and random forests for data-mining and for finding meaningful patterns, relationships, and outliers in complex ecological data: An overview, an example using golden eagle satellite data and an outlook for a promising future

Intelligent Data Analysis: Developing New Methodologies Through Pattern Discovery and Recovery

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-84

  Craig, Erica ^a   Huettmann, Falk ^b  

^a Western Ecological Studies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

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EID: 77950465641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-982-3.ch004     Document Type: Chapter

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