Incorporating boosted regression trees into ecological latent variable models

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1343-1348

  Hutchinson, Rebecca A ^a   Liu, Li Ping ^a   Dietterich, Thomas G ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD SPECIES; BOOSTED REGRESSION TREES; DIRECT MAPPING; EXPLICIT MODELS; FUNCTIONAL GRADIENT; LATENT STRUCTURES; LATENT VARIABLE METHODS; LATENT VARIABLE MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; REGRESSION TREES; TREE METHOD;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIRDS; ECOLOGY; PLANT EXTRACTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

REAL VARIABLES;

EID: 80055061923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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