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Tjen-Sien Lim
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Jul 5, 1999 11:38 pm
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Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of
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Postdoctoral Associate Position
A postdoctoral associate position in...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Jul 6, 1999 7:40 pm
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Hello everybody,
I'm looking for the CART book by Breiman, Friedman, Oslen, and Stone.
I'd like to have a copy.
Following the e-mail "CART book has been...
Daniela STROPPIANA
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Jul 7, 1999 6:43 am
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Hi Daniela,
You can order the CART monograph through CRC Press. We have a link on our
website to CRC (go to CART page at http://www.salford-systems.com)....
Kerry Martin
kerry@...
Jul 7, 1999 2:37 pm
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<3782f6b5.a059974-@...> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/recursive-partitioning/?s
tart=21
> Hello everybody,
> I'm looking for the...
limt@...
Jul 7, 1999 4:23 pm
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I'm wondering if the following problem has been fully investigated. Suppose there're a lot (say more than 100) of independent variables (covariates/attributes)...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Jul 23, 1999 12:05 am
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As a brief response to your question, no. Neither trees nor any other method is "guaranteed" to produce an "optimal" answer mathematically. Any multivariate...
SMStruhl@...
Jul 23, 1999 2:40 am
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Dear. In a different way, a similar idea respect the you propose is presented in: C. Cardie (1993): "Using Decision Trees to Improve Case-Based Learning"....
Innaki Inza Cano
ccbincai@...
Jul 23, 1999 7:24 am
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Using trees as an initial variable selection technique is a precarious enterprise. In published papers, I have called this technique "putting the CART before...
Thomas W. Miller
twmiller@...
Jul 23, 1999 3:19 pm
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Tom: I have read at least one of the papers you mention, and found it very thoughtful and useful. I fully agree that using trees to screen variables can ...
SMStruhl@...
Jul 23, 1999 3:49 pm
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Well said. ... === Leonardo Auslender 8 Sagamore Ave., Edison, NJ 08820 (908) 470 0080 x 8217...
At the risk of repetition -- I'm dropping into the middle of this conversation -- Michie, Speigelhalter et al, "Machine Learning, Neural, and Statistical...
Timothy Wyant
tw@...
Jul 24, 1999 7:46 pm
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I believe Tom is right on target that the use of a single tree fitted
to a data set is a precarious ways of selecting variables and should
not be encouraged....
Are you curious about what's next on the data-analysis frontier? Are you considering using MARS or CART in your modeling and analysis? Here's an opportunity...
Kerry Martin
kerry@...
Jul 26, 1999 10:19 pm
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http://osler.wustl.edu/~shannon/csna/news.latest.html Hi, The above link is to the most recent issue of the Classification Society of North America's (CSNA)...
William Shannon
shannon@...
Jul 30, 1999 7:25 pm
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I'm looking for people having experience in C5.0 for QSAR applications. Thanks Abdel Laoui...
abdelazize.laoui@...
Aug 5, 1999 5:07 pm
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<7obka8$oac-@egroups.com> wrote: original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/recursive-partitioning/?s tart=37 ... applications. ... I don't know about C5.0...
limt@...
Aug 6, 1999 6:00 pm
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I'd like to solicit information about the cause missing values based on your experiences analyzing data. Some examples that I've encountered or can think up...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Aug 8, 1999 12:42 am
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I'd like to hear your opinions/comments/discussions on the following issue. One selling point of tree-structured methods is that they can "provide insight and...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Aug 15, 1999 3:00 am
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The following new article in Machine Learning could be of interest. === UI - 215PC-0003 AU - Merz CJ TI - Using correspondence analysis to combine...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Aug 23, 1999 10:24 pm
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Machine Learning Methods for Ecological Applications Edited by Alan H. Fielding Dept. of Biological Sciences, The Manchester Metropolitan, UK The last 25 years...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Aug 26, 1999 6:27 pm
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I'm wondering if someone has the electronic copy (in PostScript or PDF) of the following paper. Our local library doesn't have the 1995 proceeding and it'll...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Sep 7, 1999 2:01 am
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MARS AND CART OCTOBER SEMINARS PRESENTED BY SALFORD SYSTEMS An Introduction to Next Generation Regression Modeling with MARS™ (October 13 in San Francisco...
Kerry Martin
kerry@...
Sep 7, 1999 11:11 pm
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For those of you interested, the Census Bureau has many many Mathematical Statistician and Survey Statistician positions at various grades that we are trying...
dean_h_judson@...
Sep 8, 1999 6:55 pm
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Opitz, D. and Maclin, R. (1999) "Popular Ensemble Methods: An Empirical Study", Volume 11, pages 169-198. Available in HTML, PDF, PostScript and compressed...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Sep 9, 1999 7:34 pm
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Machine Learning Volume 36, Issue 3, September 1999 An Efficient Extension to Mixture Techniques for Prediction and Decision Trees Fernando C. Pereira, Yoram...
Tjen-Sien Lim
limt@...
Sep 17, 1999 3:29 am
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I've computed the improvement (%) over the error rate of CART(r), C5.0, and RIPPER by boosting, bagging, or arcing. The data sets used in the experiment and...