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From: leverich@randvax.UUCP (Brian Leverich)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Should we use an inductive tool for this problem?
Summary: Have you considered standard statistical tools?
Keywords: inductive reasoning tools
Message-ID: <1689@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 14:28:33 GMT
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Reply-To: leverich@rand-unix.UUCP (Brian Leverich)
Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.
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If you're actually trying to "solve" the problem you posed rather than
conduct AI research, you might want to review the standard statistical
approaches to categorizing data.  The bean estimators have been doing
this stuff for decades.

Even if your main target is AI research, contrasting the performance of AI
and statistical approaches is generally interesting and occasionally
flat-out embarrassing.  Cheers.  -B
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