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Description: |
x, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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General Note: |
"First CRC Press reprint 1998"--Title page verso |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-346) and indexes. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: 1. Background -- 2. Introduction to tree classification -- 3. Right sized trees and honest estimates -- 4. Splitting rules -- 5. Strengthening and interpreting -- 6. Medical diagnosis and prognosis -- 7. Mass spectra classification -- 8. Regression trees -- 9. Bayes rules and partitions -- 10. Optimal pruning -- 11. Construction of trees from a learning sample -- 12. Consistency. |