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- Authors
- Schaffer, C.
- Affiliations
- City University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schaffer, Cullen
- Venue
- Machine Learning
- Published
- 1993-02
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 153-178
- ISSN
- 0885-6125 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0565
- OpenAlex
- W1995023359
- Cited by
- 310
- References
- 29
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- FWCI
- 62.52
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- en
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- Machine Learning (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining Algorithms and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications
- Keywords
- overfitting avoidance, decision tree induction, selective pruning, bias-variance trade-off, prediction accuracy, generalization
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