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The Computer Journal 1972 15(3):263-267; doi:10.1093/comjnl/15.3.263
© 1972 by British Computer Society
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Automatic construction of diagnostic tables

W. R. Willcox * and S. P. Lapage *

Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, London, UK

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.

Received August 1971.

* Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5HT


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