A note on split selection bias in classification trees

DOI10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00064-1MaRDI QIDQ956844zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors B. E. Eshmatov

Publication date 26 November 2008

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-9473(03)00064-1

zbMATH Keywords

\(P\)-valueCramér \(V^{2}\) statisticKolmogorov-Smirnov statisticPearson chi-square statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

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• C4.5
• bootstrap

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