Construction and assessment of classification rules

About this book

Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules is an accessible book presenting the central issues and placing particular emphasis on comparison, performance assessment and how to match method to application. Some unusual allocation problems are outlined and a detailed discussion of performance assessment is included. The methods used for different application domains, such as parametric method, smoothing methods and recursive partitioning are described. The author reviews different approaches and guides researchers and users to suitable classes of techniques.