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Significance Testing in Automatic Interaction Detection (A.I.D.)
Author(s) -
Kass G. V.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2346565
Subject(s) - computer science , statistics , natural language processing , mathematics
Summary This paper initiates an investigation into the statistical significance of results obtained by analysing data through the Automatic Interaction Detection technique. A test statistic which is asymptotically independent of the sample size is examined and critical values are obtained for a special case. The asymptotic results are compared with the exact distribution for varying sample size in a specific example. A brief discussion on the application of the results to a particular case study concludes the paper.