Retrofitting Decision Tree Classifiers Using Kernel Density Estimation

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 506-514

  Smyth, Padhraic ^a   Gray, Alexander ^a   Fayyad, Usama M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLASS PROBABILITIES; CLASSIFICATION TREES; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATORS; NOVEL METHODS; PIECE-WISE CONSTANTS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY TREES; TREE DENSITY;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84873894260     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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