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