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-  Blood-Test-Result
-  standard methodology from Statistics is throw data away
 -  assign missing value to the most common value at node  
  -  alternatively, assign missing value to the most common value at
node  
  for examples with the same target value -  assign probability to each possible value, estimated by
frequencies at node  
  
 -  latter tack, can be subdivided again later in the tree
 -  same approach can be used to classify examples
 
 
Patricia Riddle 
Fri May 15 13:00:36 NZST 1998