evtree: Evolutionary Learning of Globally Optimal Classification and Regression Trees in R

Commonly used classification and regression tree methods like the CART algorithm are recursive partitioning methods that build the model in a forward stepwise search. Although this approach is known to be an efficient heuristic, the results of recursive tree methods are only locally optimal, as spli...

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Main Authors: Thomas Grubinger, Achim Zeileis, Karl-Peter Pfeiffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2014-10-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2189