Stacked generalization: When does it work?

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 1997, Pages 866-871

  Ting, Kai Ming ^a   Witten, Ian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION TASKS; GENERAL METHOD; HIGH-LEVEL MODELS; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; STACKED GENERALIZATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

DISPENSERS;

EID: 84880657922     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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