Re: DM: Ross Quinlan's pessimistic pruning mechanism

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Sergei
Try the following:-
Quinlan, J. (1987), Simplifying Decision Trees, Int. Journal of 
Man-Machine
Studies, 27, pp. 221-34, Academic Press.
Regards
Dave

>I am desperately seeking for the exact formula for Ross Quinlan's 
>pessimistic
>pruning mechanism used in his decision tree algorithms. It was said 
>in some
>papers that this formula can be found in the book "C4.5: algorithms 
>for
>machine learning" by R.Quinlan but I failed to find it there. 


          Date:     31-Oct-1997 01:24pm
          From:     David Dutton
                    DUTTOND
          Tel No:   01923 66-4110
          Subject: Re: DM:  Ross Quinlan's pessimistic pruning 
mechanism