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Welcome to the AutoClass Documentation!  The documentation is divided into a
basic core that most users will need to at least skim through, and various 
other supporting documentation.


BASIC DOCUMENTATION:

   preparation.text          How to prepare data for use by AutoClass

   search.text               How to run Autoclass to find classifications.

   reports.text              How to examine the classification in various ways.

   interpretation.text	     How to interpret AutoClass results.

   checkpoint.text	     Protocols for running a checkpointed search.


SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION:

   legal-notice.text         What we are agreeing to legally.

   classes.text              What classification is all about, for beginners.
	
   ac2-vs-ac3.text	     Diferences between AutoClass II and III.

   design.text               Some hows and whys of the implementation.

   reports-math.text         Theory behind influence values used in the reports.

   ml-88.tex                 A Latex version of this paper describing Autoclass:

                               Peter Cheeseman, Don Freeman, James Kelley,
                               Matthew Self, John Stutz, and Will Taylor.
                               "AutoClass: a Bayesian classification system."  In
                               Proceeedings of the Fifth International Conference
                               on Machine Learning, 1988.
