Data science and prediction

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 64-73

  Dhar, Vasant ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DATA; COMPLEX THEORY; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE; PREDICTIVE ACCURACY; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SPARSER MODELS; SYSTEMATIC STUDY;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 84888424872     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2500499     Document Type: Article

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