Construction and assessment of classification rules
By: D.J. Hand.
Series: Wiley series in probability and statistics.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Chichester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Discriminant analysis.; Classification.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-208) and index.