An analysis pipeline with statistical and visualization-guided knowledge discovery for Michigan-style learning classifier systems

IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 35-45

  Urbanowicz, Ryan J ^a   Granizo Mackenzie, Ambrose ^a   Moore, Jason ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE INTERACTIONS; DATA MINING PROBLEMS; LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEM; REAL WORLD DATA; SINGLE-STEP; STATISTICAL EVALUATION;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

PIPELINES;

EID: 84867879951     PISSN: 1556603X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCI.2012.2215124     Document Type: Article

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