Miscellaneous

Some inducers are still being developed or have esoteric uses. We briefly mention them.

Accuracy estimator

is a wrapper inducer that runs a given inducer in ACC_INDUCER, estimates its accuracy using an accuracy estimation method, and returns that as the resulting accuracy. The AccEst utility provides a friendlier interface, but there are occasions where one wants to do two levels of accuracy estimation ( e.g. , cross-validation accuracy on holdout sets), where this inducer is very useful [].

NULL

always predicts unknown and thus gets 0% accuracy. It is mostly used internally, but can be used with the Inducer utility and DISP_CONFUSION_MAT set to true in order to view the distribution of the labels. The ``info'' utility is probably a better way of getting basic statistics about a data file.

EODG

is an inducer for building oblivious decision graphs top-down []. Cannot handle unknown values.

LazyDT

is a lazy decision tree algorithm, described in friedman-kohavi-yun-lazydt.

Order-fss

searches for an attribute ordering. Very researchy.

Disc-search

is a wrapper discretizer that searches for the best number of intervals for each attribute. Very slow.

Weight-search

is a wrapper discretizer that searches for the best weight for each attribute (from a uniform set of weights). Slow. Researchy. Not much improvement over feature subset selection.

CatDT

Builds decision trees with categorizers you choose at the leaves. Researchy. Requires that inducers support copies, which very few do ( e.g. , naive-bayes).