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Improved Estimated Accuracy

  1. calculate the rule accuracy over training data
  2. calculate the standard deviation assuming a binomial distribution
  3. For a given confidence interval, lower bound estimate is taken as measure of rule performance


Patricia Jean Riddle
Wed Jun 23 13:06:34 NZST 1999