An empirical evaluation of the comprehensibility of decision table, tree and rule based predictive models

Huysmans, Johan, Dejaeger, Karel, Mues, Christophe, Vanthienen, Jan, Baesens, Bart·2011·Decision Support Systems
DOI 10.1016/j.dss.2010.12.003

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