Ensembles are often capable of greater prediction accuracy than any of their individual members. As a consequence of the diversity between individual base-learners, an ensemble wil...
Vladimir Nikulin, Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Shu-Kay N...
Defect prediction is an important task in the mining of software repositories, but the quality of predictions varies strongly within and across software projects. In this paper we...
Jayalath Ekanayake, Jonas Tappolet, Harald Gall, A...
Instance-based learning (IBL) algorithms have proved to be successful in many applications. However, as opposed to standard statistical methods, a prediction in IBL is usually give...
When simple parametric models such as linear regression fail to adequately approximate a relationship across an entire set of data, an alternative may be to consider a partition o...
Hugh A. Chipman, Edward I. George, Robert E. McCul...
Nested dichotomies are a standard statistical technique for tackling certain polytomous classification problems with logistic regression. They can be represented as binary trees ...