Importance of feature selection in decision-tree and artificial-neural-network ecological applications. Alburnus alburnus alborella: A practical example

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 309-315

  Tirelli, Tina ^a   Pessani, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data preprocessing; Performance comparison; Prediction accuracy; Species prediction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYPRINID; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PELAGIC FISH; RESOURCE USE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALBURNUS ALBURNUS;

EID: 80051800791     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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