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Decision making often asks for classification. We will present a new R package klaR including functions to build, check, tune, visualize, and compare classification rules. The software is illustrated by means of a case study of prediction of the German economy’s business cycle phases.
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Weihs, C., Ligges, U., Luebke, K., Raabe, N. (2005). klaR Analyzing German Business Cycles. In: Baier, D., Decker, R., Schmidt-Thieme, L. (eds) Data Analysis and Decision Support. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28397-8_36
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