Automatic construction of diagnostic tables

Open Access

1 March 1972

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Computer Journal

Vol. 15 (3) , 263-267
https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/15.3.263

Abstract

Diagnostic tables are used in the identification of biological specimens. A method is presented which generates subsets of the available tests which meet the requirements of a diagnostic table. The method always finds a set with the fewest possible tests. In each of four trial applications an alternative sequential method, due to H. G. Gyllenberg, also found a set with the fewest possible tests.

Keywords

TABLES DIAGNOSTIC
SEQUENTIAL
GYLLENBERG
IDENTIFICATION
CONSTRUCTION
AUTOMATIC
FEWEST POSSIBLE TESTS

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