A decision tree algorithm for ordinal classification

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

Volumn 1642, Issue , 1999, Pages 187-198

  Potharst, Rob ^a   Bioch, Jan C ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; DECISION TREES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREE METHOD; DECISION-TREE ALGORITHM; MULTI-ATTRIBUTES; ORDER PRESERVING; ORDINAL CLASSIFICATION; TREE GENERATION;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84957619311     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48412-4_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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