An investigation into the effect of ensemble size and voting threshold on the accuracy of neural network ensembles

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

Volumn 1747, Issue , 1999, Pages 268-277

  Cox, Robert ^a   Clark, David ^a   Richardson, Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ASYMPTOTIC VALUES; CONSENSUS VOTING; DATA POINTS; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER; NEURAL NETWORK ENSEMBLES; TRADE OFF;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84957633680     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46695-9_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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