An empirical study on class probability estimates in decision tree learning

Journal of Software

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1368-1373

  Jiang, Liangxiao ^a   Li, Chaoqun ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS PROBABILITIES; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; DATA SETS; DECISION TREE LEARNING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LAPLACE ESTIMATE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; RANKING PERFORMANCE;

DECISION TREES; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; PROBABILITY;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 79960791677     PISSN: 1796217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jsw.6.7.1368-1373     Document Type: Article

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