Building simple models: A case study with decision trees

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1280, Issue , 1997, Pages 211-222

  Jensen, David ^a   Oates, Tim ^a   Cohen, Paul R ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

DECISION TREE INDUCTION; INDUCTION ALGORITHMS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; STATISTICAL EFFECTS; SUBTREES; TRAINING SETS; TREE SIZE;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84867530100     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0052842     Document Type: Conference Paper

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