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Enhancement Of Random Forests Using Trees With Oblique Splits, Andrejus Parfionovas

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Statistical classification is widely used in many areas where there is a need to make a data-driven decision, or to classify complicated cases or objects. For instance: disease diagnostics (is a patient sick or healthy, based on the blood test results?); weather forecasting (will there be a storm tomorrow, based on today's atmospheric pressure, air temperature, and wind velocity?); speech recognition (what was said over the phone, based on the caller's voice level and articulation); spam detection (can the unsolicited commercial e-mails be identified by their content?); and so on.

Classification trees …