Decision trees for uplift modeling

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 441-450

  Rzepakowski, Piotr ^a,b   Jaroszewicz, Szymon ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Information theory; Uplift modeling

Indexed keywords

CLASS PROBABILITIES; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFIED OBJECTS; DATA SETS; DIFFERENTIAL RESPONSE; MACHINE LEARNING LITERATURE; MODELING TECHNIQUE; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PRUNING METHODS; SPLITTING CRITERION; TREE-BASED; UPLIFT MODELING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; INFORMATION THEORY; PROFITABILITY;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 79951728477     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2010.62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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