Info on Audiology Data Base
WARNING: This database should be credited to the original owner whenever
used for any publication whatsoever.
1. Title: Audiology Database
2. Sources:
(a) Original Owner: Professor Jergen at Baylor College of Medicine
(b) Donor: Bruce Porter (porter@fall.cs.utexas.EDU)
(c) Date Received: 12/3/1987
3. Past Usage:
-- See: Bareiss, E. Ray, & Porter, Bruce (1987). Protos: An Exemplar-Based
Learning Apprentice. In the Proceedings of the 4th International
Workshop on Machine Learning, 12-23, Irvine, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
4. Relevant Information:
-- Contact Ray Bareiss (rbareiss@uunet.uucp ??), now at Vanderbilt
University, for more information.
-- Domain expert: Professor Craig Wier of the University of Texas, Austin.
5. Number of instances: 200 training cases, 26 test cases
6. Number of attributes: ???
7. Attribute information: (all attributes are nominally valued)
1. case identifier.
2. classification (24 classes)
3. List of case features
-- format: form f(v) should be read as "feature f has value v"
8. Missing attribute values:
-- This database does NOT use a standard set of attributes per instance.
9. Class Distribution: (in the training set)
1. acoustic_neuroma: 1
2. bells_palsy: 1
3. cochlear_age: 46
4. cochlear_age_and_noise: 18
5. cochlear_age_plus_poss_menieres: 1
6. cochlear_noise_and_heredity: 2
7. cochlear_poss_noise: 16
8. cochlear_unknown: 48
9. conductive_discontinuity: 2
10. conductive_fixation: 6
11. mixed_cochlear_age_fixation: 1
12. mixed_cochlear_age_otitis_media: 4
13. mixed_cochlear_age_s_om: 2
14. mixed_cochlear_unk_discontinuity: 2
15. mixed_cochlear_unk_fixation: 5
16. mixed_cochlear_unk_ser_om: 3
17. mixed_poss_central_om: 1
18. mixed_poss_noise_om: 2
19. normal_ear: 20
20. otitis_media: 4
21. poss_central: 1
22. possible_brainstem_disorder: 4
23. possible_menieres: 8
24. retrocochlear_unknown: 2
--------------------Total: 200