looking for "optimal weighting" algorithm

[Alex Martelli]

On Friday 11 April 2003 04:32 pm, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:13:11PM +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:
> > I _know_ there's a decent algorithm to solve the following problem,
> > but I don't recall its name and thus can't rapidly google for the
> > details... can somebody help?
>
> [..snip..]
>
> Perhaps you are after the ID3 or C5 (or is it C5.0?) algorithm?
>
> Some googling finds this, which explains the ID3 algorithm:
>     http://yoda.cis.temple.edu:8080/UGAIWWW/lectures95/learn/C45/

Thanks!  Actually what i had in mind (and was unable to remember
the name of) was "logistic regression", but it's nice to see several
cognate approaches pointed out -- tx!


Alex