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The software consists of two Pascal programs, HERB (Heuristic Evolutionary Rule Breeder) and LEAF (Logical Evaluator And Forecaster). HERB improves a given starting set of rules by running over several simulated generations, LEAF uses the rules to classify samples from a database where the correct membership may not be known. Preliminary test on three different databases have been carried out -- on hospital admissions (classing heart patients as deaths or survivors), on athletic physique (classing Olympic finalists as long-distance runners or sprinters) and on football results (categorising games into draws and non-draws)
It appears from the tests that the method works better than the standard discriminant analysis technique based on a linear discriminant function, and hence that this long-neglected approach warrants further investigation.",
Genetic Programming entries for Richard Forsyth