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ECAI
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Explaining the Result of a Decision Tree to the End-User
This paper addresses the problem of the explanation of the result given by a decision tree, when it is used to predict the class of new cases. In order to evaluate this result, the...
Isabelle Alvarez
SDM
2010
SIAM
184views Data Mining» more  SDM 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
A Robust Decision Tree Algorithm for Imbalanced Data Sets
We propose a new decision tree algorithm, Class Confidence Proportion Decision Tree (CCPDT), which is robust and insensitive to class distribution and generates rules which are st...
Wei Liu, Sanjay Chawla, David A. Cieslak, Nitesh V...
KBS
2002
106views more  KBS 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Hybrid decision tree
In this paper, a hybrid learning approach named HDT is proposed. HDT simulates human reasoning by using symbolic learning to do qualitative analysis and using neural learning to d...
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Zhaoqian Chen
CSDA
2008
128views more  CSDA 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Classification tree analysis using TARGET
Tree models are valuable tools for predictive modeling and data mining. Traditional tree-growing methodologies such as CART are known to suffer from problems including greediness,...
J. Brian Gray, Guangzhe Fan
MCS
2009
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Random Ordinality Ensembles A Novel Ensemble Method for Multi-valued Categorical Data
Abstract. Data with multi-valued categorical attributes can cause major problems for decision trees. The high branching factor can lead to data fragmentation, where decisions have ...
Amir Ahmad, Gavin Brown