An empirical study on attribute selection measures in decision tree learning

Journal of Computational Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 105-112

  Jiang, Liangxiao ^a   Li, Chaoqun ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Attribute selection measure; Classification; Decision tree learning; Impurity measure; Ranking

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION DECISION; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; DATA SETS; DECISION TREE LEARNING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IN-BUILDINGS; RANKING PERFORMANCE; REAL WORLD DATA;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 77954267435     PISSN: 15539105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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