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Research into statistical expert systems is relatively young, but old enough so that one can examine the progress that has been made. In this paper I compare achievements with requirements stated a few years ago. Certain themes are apparent in today’s work and some of these are explored in detail. In particular the following are addressed:
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strategy: formalising the choices, actions, and decisions to be made in a statistical analysis
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hypertext: a nonlinear high level knowledge representation which has been used in several systems
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metadata: computer manipulable information supplementing the data.
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Hand, D.J. (1990). Emergent Themes in Statistical Expert Systems. In: Schader, M., Gaul, W. (eds) Knowledge, Data and Computer-Assisted Decisions. NATO ASI Series, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84218-4_22
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