Decision trees: A machine-learning method for characterizing morphological patterns resulting from ecological adaptation

Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 261-276

  Mendoza, Manuel ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781420008074     Document Type: Chapter

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