Inferring Decision Trees Using the Minimum Description Length Principle
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Quinlan, L. Ross; Rivest, Ronald L.
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We explore the use of Rissanen's Minimum Description Length Principle for the construction of decision trees. Empirical results comparing this approach to other methods are given.
Date issued
1987-09Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TM-339