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Re: [R] decision trees using the Hellinger distance rather than

2009-10-02 Thread Erik Iverson

ct.org] > On Behalf Of Rajarshi Guha > Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:33 AM > To: R > Subject: [R] decision trees using the Hellinger distance rather than > > Hi, while working with decision trees and unbalanced data, I came across > the > use of the Hellinger distance as

[R] decision trees using the Hellinger distance rather than

2009-10-02 Thread Rajarshi Guha

Hi, while working with decision trees and unbalanced data, I came across the use of the Hellinger distance as an alternative to information gain [1,2], when dealing with skewed data. Does anybody know of R implementations of this approach to decision trees? Thanks, [1] http://www.cse.nd.edu/Repor