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Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'05)
Learning through Changes: An Empirical Study of Dynamic Behaviors of Probability Estimation Trees
Houston, Texas
November 27-November 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2278-5
Kun Zhang, Tulane University
Zujia Xu, Dillard University
Jing Peng, Tulane University
Bill Buckles, Tulane University
In practice, learning from data is often hampered by the limited training examples. In this paper, as the size of training data varies, we empirically investigate several probability estimation tree algorithms over eighteen binary classification problems. Nine metrics are used to evaluate their performances. Our aggregated results show that ensemble trees consistently outperform single trees. Confusion factor trees(CFT) register poor calibration even as training size increases, which shows that CFTs are potentially biased if data sets have small noise. We also provide analysis on the observed performance of the tree algorithms.
Citation:
Kun Zhang, Zujia Xu, Jing Peng, Bill Buckles, "Learning through Changes: An Empirical Study of Dynamic Behaviors of Probability Estimation Trees," icdm, pp.817-820, Fifth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'05), 2005
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