Can Perceptrons Identify Users of Body Lotion?

  • Authors:
  • Bernd-Jürgen Falkowski;Jörg Nietzschmann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the International Conference, 7th Fuzzy Days on Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A real world problem (identifying users of body lotion from the answers given in a questionaire) is treated using a linear discriminant and a modified fault tolerant perceptron learning algorithm (pocket algorithm). As was to be expected, a fairly large error rate, which may nevertheless be acceptable for practical purposes, is obtained. A comparison with classical statistical methods (binary logistic regression) shows that the pocket algorithm does not perform as well as was previously predicted in general.