Research Article

Forest Pruning Based on Branch Importance

Table 6

The performance of FP on pruning subensemble obtained by FP on bagging. represents that FP is significantly better (or smaller) than EPIC in pairwise t-tests at 95% significance level and denotes that FP is significantly worse (or larger) than EPIC.

DatasetError rateSize
PFEPICPFEIPC

Australian
Autos
Backache
Balance-scale
Breast-cancer
Cars
Credit-rating
German-credit
Ecoli
Hayes-roth
Heart-c
Horse-colic
Ionosphere
Iris
Lymphography
Page-blocks
Pima
prnn-fglass
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