WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS539 Machine Learning 
Assignment 9 - Fall 2000

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

Due: Thursday, December 7, 2000 at 6:00 pm. 
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The assignment for this week consists of three parts:
  1. Study Chapter 11 in detail and solve exercise 11.1

  2. Run the Foil system, available online at Quinlan's Webpage, with all the datasets that are included in foil6.sh file and analyze the results that Foil returns.

  3. Analyze the rules that you obtained when running Foil over the Census-Income dataset in the previous project. Single out at least 5 that you find interesting.
Please turn in solutions to those problems at the beginning of class on Thursday, December 7th and be ready to discuss your solutions in class.