Machine Learning Proceedings 1988 (Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, Ann Arbor, MI, June 12–14, 1988), J. Laird, ed., Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 54–64.
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This paper describes AutoClass II, a program for automatically discovering (inducing) classes from a database, based on a Bayesian statistical technique which automatically determines the most probable number of classes, their probabilistic descriptions, and the probability that each object is a member of each class. AutoClass has been tested on several large, real databases and has discovered previously unsuspected classes. There is no doubt that these classes represent new phenomena.
Manuscript of June 14, 1988, by the authors. Re-typeset in LaTeX in 2026 with the text unchanged. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.