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Programs for Machine Learning
Steven L. Salzberg,Alberto Segre +1 more
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In his new book, C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning, Quinlan has put together a definitive, much needed description of his complete system, including the latest developments, which will be a welcome addition to the library of many researchers and students.Abstract:
Algorithms for constructing decision trees are among the most well known and widely used of all machine learning methods. Among decision tree algorithms, J. Ross Quinlan's ID3 and its successor, C4.5, are probably the most popular in the machine learning community. These algorithms and variations on them have been the subject of numerous research papers since Quinlan introduced ID3. Until recently, most researchers looking for an introduction to decision trees turned to Quinlan's seminal 1986 Machine Learning journal article [Quinlan, 1986]. In his new book, C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning, Quinlan has put together a definitive, much needed description of his complete system, including the latest developments. As such, this book will be a welcome addition to the library of many researchers and students.read more
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Land cover change assessment using decision trees, support vector machines and maximum likelihood classification algorithms
TL;DR: The potential of DTs is analysed as one technique for data mining for the analysis of the 1986 and 2001 Landsat TM and ETM+ datasets, respectively and the results were compared with those obtained using SVMs, and MLC.
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A Fast Clustering-Based Feature Subset Selection Algorithm for High-Dimensional Data
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the FAST not only produces smaller subsets of features but also improves the performances of the four types of classifiers.
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Machine learning and data mining
TL;DR: The eld of data mining addresses the question of how best to use this historical data to discover general regularities and to improve future decisions.
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A Methodological Approach to the Classification of Dermoscopy Images
M. Emre Celebi,Hassan A. Kingravi,Bakhtiyar Uddin,Hitoshi Iyatomi,Y. Alp Aslandogan,William V. Stoecker,Randy Hays Moss +6 more
TL;DR: A methodological approach to the classification of pigmented skin lesions in dermoscopy images is presented and the issue of class imbalance is addressed using various sampling strategies and the classifier generalization error is estimated using Monte Carlo cross validation.
k-Nearest Neighbour Classifiers
TL;DR: An overview of techniques for Nearest Neighbour classification focusing onMechanisms for assessing similarity (distance), computational issues in identifying nearest neighbours and mechanisms for reducing the dimen-sion of the data is presented.
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Classification and Regression Trees.
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Induction of Decision Trees
TL;DR: In this paper, an approach to synthesizing decision trees that has been used in a variety of systems, and it describes one such system, ID3, in detail, is described, and a reported shortcoming of the basic algorithm is discussed.
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Classification and regression trees
TL;DR: The methodology used to construct tree structured rules is the focus of a monograph as mentioned in this paper, covering the use of trees as a data analysis method, and in a more mathematical framework, proving some of their fundamental properties.
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An Empirical Comparison of Pruning Methods for Decision Tree Induction
TL;DR: This paper compares five methods for pruning decision trees, developed from sets of examples, and shows that three methods—critical value, error complexity and reduced error—perform well, while the other two may cause problems.
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Unknown attribute values in induction
TL;DR: This paper compares the effectiveness of several approaches to the development and use of decision tree classifiers as measured by their performance on a collection of datasets.