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Journal of Spectroscopy
Volume 2018, Article ID 8316918, 8 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/8316918
Research Article

The Impact of Simulated Spectral Noise on Random Forest and Oblique Random Forest Classification Performance

Na’eem Hoosen Agjee, Onisimo Mutanga, Kabir Peerbhay, and Riyad Ismail

School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville P/Bag X01, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa

Correspondence should be addressed to Na’eem Hoosen Agjee; moc.liamg@2neejga

Received 30 August 2017; Accepted 9 January 2018; Published 13 March 2018

Academic Editor: Javier Garcia-Guinea

Copyright © 2018 Na’eem Hoosen Agjee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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