Contents

• 1  Directory contents
• 2  What is AIFAD?
• 3  Why would you need it?
  • 3.1  Features
  • 3.2  Missing features
• 4  How can you use it?
  • 4.1  Specification of algebraic datatypes
    • 4.1.1  Lexical conventions
    • 4.1.2  Syntax
  • 4.2  Data files
    • 4.2.1  Syntax
  • 4.3  C4.5-compatible data
  • 4.4  Learning from data
    • 4.4.1  Models
  • 4.5  Learning parameters
    • 4.5.1  Variable selection
    • 4.5.2  Pre-pruning
    • 4.5.3  Different entropy measures
    • 4.5.4  Most frequent values
    • 4.5.5  Splitting null branches
    • 4.5.6  Random models
    • 4.5.7  Handling missing values in C4.5-data
    • 4.5.8  Factorization of models
  • 4.6  Applying models
  • 4.7  Evaluating results
  • 4.8  Model complexity
  • 4.9  Random data generation
• 5  Contact information and contributing