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From: sriram@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Induction in Current ES tools
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From: sriram@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Induction in Current ES tools
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 88 12:17 EDT


Although ID3 is supposed to do generalization and goody  stuff like
that, my experience with some of the current inductive tools is that
they seem to: 1) consider only positive examples; 2) do no generalization;
 and 3) be like  (very efficient) decision table evaluators.

Any comments?

Sriram