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- Schaffer, C.
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- City University of New York (US)
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- Schaffer, Cullen
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- Machine Learning
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- 1993-02
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- 153-178
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- 1573-0565
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- overfitting avoidance, decision tree induction, selective pruning, bias-variance trade-off, prediction accuracy, generalization
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