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Activity Number: 222
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2016 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract #317986
Title: Some Tricks Behind the GUIDE Algorithm
Author(s): Wei-Yin Loh*
Companies: University of Wisconsin
Keywords: approximation ; unbiased ; chi-square
Abstract:

The GUIDE classification and regression tree and forest algorithm has been in development for 30 years. This talk will reveal some of the mathematical, statistical and computational approximations that allow GUIDE to do more than other approaches in the same or less amount of computing time.


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