... the class of the majority of the items which reached it during training. The trees were grown using recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was reduction in deviance. Using the Gini ... for the LPE experiments because of the ceiling effect and the small size of the complete data set, therefore, we did not rerun the corresponding experiments. Furthermore, the number of codebook ... codebook vectors (10,20,50,90) and the initialisation proce- dure: during one set of runs, each class receives the same number of vectors, during the other, the number of codebook vectors is proportional...