This file provides additional information on using the Visual Basic demonstration software.


Information on the data files and the data conversion files
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Continuous.dat
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This file contains continuous multivariate data with missing values.
The data file continuous.dat is provided for use by the demonstrations demo_bacon.exe and demo_em.exe.

continuous_c_opt.txt
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This is the data conversion file used by demo_data_conv.exe to change the file continuous.dat into 
an XML file.

sars.csv
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This file consists of both continuous and categorical data, with missing values.

sars_c_opt.txt
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This is the data conversion file used by demo_data_conv.exe to change the file sars.csv into an XML file.

sec197abi.csv
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This file contains both categorical and continuous values, with missing values.

sec197abi_c_opt.txt
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This is the data conversion file that is used by demo_data_conv.exe to change sec197abi.csv into an XML file.


Information on the applications
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demo_data_conv.exe
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This uses the data conversion files in the XML directory. It is important to make sure
that these data conversion files specify the complete path of the data file to be 
converted and also the target XML file.

demo_summ_stats.exe
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To view the SVG plots within Internet Explorer it is necessary to obtain SVG View from Adobe, this is freely available from the Abode website.

demo_waid.exe
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The data must contain a number of complete data records so that a Waid tree can be grown. Each call to this application imputes the values for a single missing data pattern; there can only be one missing value per data record. The selected 
predictor variables must contain no missing values. If there is more than
one missing variable per data record then the complete record can be imputed by
imputing the values for each missing variable separately.

ts-som
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In the folder TS-SOM there is an additional directory called C++, which contains
a C++ example project.





