Networks for pattern recognition problems?

[Dave Shaw]

To date we have compared the expert system originally built for the task with
many configurations of neural nets (based on your work), multiple linear 
regression equations, discriminant analysis, many types of nearest neighbor
systems, and some work on automatic decision tree generation algorithms.
Performance in measured both in the ROC P sub a (which turns out to be only
a moderate indicator of performance, due to the unequal n's in the two 
distributions), and maximum percent correct, given the optimal bias setting.
All systems have been trained and tested on the same sets of training and test
data. As I indicated before, the story isn't completely in yet, but it is very
hard to show significant differences between any of these systems on the solar
flare task.

Dave