Bayes optimal instance-based learning

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1398, Issue , 1998, Pages 77-88

  Kontkanen, Petri ^a   Myllymaki, Petri ^a   Silander, Tomi ^a   Tirri, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; MACHINE LEARNING;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; INDEPENDENCE ASSUMPTION; INSTANCE BASED LEARNING; INSTANCE-BASED CLASSIFIERS; MACHINE LEARNING LITERATURE; NAIVE BAYES CLASSIFIERS; PARAMETRIC MODELING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84957075235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0026675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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