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Jason H Moore1, Randal S Olson1, Yong Chen1
1Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104, USA.
Abstract:
The process of developing new test statistics is laborious, requiring the manual development and evaluation of mathematical functions that satisfy several theoretical properties. Automating this process, hitherto not done, would greatly accelerate the discovery of much-needed, new test statistics. This automation is a challenging problem because it requires the discovery method to know something about the desirable properties of a good test statistic in addition to having an engine that can develop and explore candidate mathematical solutions with an intuitive representation. In this paper we describe a genetic programming-based system for the automated discovery of new test statistics. Specifically, our system was able to discover test statistics as powerful as the t-test for comparing sample means from two distributions with equal variances.
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