Ensemble methods for advanced skier days prediction

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART 1, 2014, Pages 1176-1188

  King, Michael A ^a   Abrahams, Alan S ^a   Ragsdale, Cliff T ^a  

^a PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Ensemble learning; Forecasting; Skier days

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SKIER DAYS; TOURISM APPLICATION;

DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION; NEURAL NETWORKS; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES; RESEARCH; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

FORECASTING;

EID: 84888342478     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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