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AutoClass: A Bayesian Classification System

Peter C. Cheeseman, James Kelly, Matthew Self, John C. Stutz, Will Taylor, Don Freeman
ICML 1988 pp. 54-64
doi:10.1016/B978-0-934613-64-4.50011-6 /icml/1988/cheeseman1988icml-autoclass/

Abstract

This paper describes AutoClass II, a program for automatically discovering (inducing) classes from a database, based on a Bayesian statistical technique which automatically determines the most probable number of classes, their probabilistic descriptions, and the probability that each object is a member of each class. AutoClass has been tested on several large, real databases and has discovered previously unsuspected classes. There is no doubt that these classes represent new phenomena.

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Text

Cheeseman et al. "AutoClass: A Bayesian Classification System." International Conference on Machine Learning, 1988. doi:10.1016/B978-0-934613-64-4.50011-6

Markdown

[Cheeseman et al. "AutoClass: A Bayesian Classification System." International Conference on Machine Learning, 1988.](https://mlanthology.org/icml/1988/cheeseman1988icml-autoclass/) doi:10.1016/B978-0-934613-64-4.50011-6

BibTeX

@inproceedings{cheeseman1988icml-autoclass,
  title     = {{AutoClass: A Bayesian Classification System}},
  author    = {Cheeseman, Peter C. and Kelly, James and Self, Matthew and Stutz, John C. and Taylor, Will and Freeman, Don},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {1988},
  pages     = {54-64},
  doi       = {10.1016/B978-0-934613-64-4.50011-6},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/icml/1988/cheeseman1988icml-autoclass/}
}