Platforms Available

This software is available only for the Windows environment.

Where to get

Sipina Professional Edition is available for free and can be download on the website below:

http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/sipina.html

There is also documentation available in both English and French.

Tree Methods

This version of Sipina only implements decision tree methods. The following algorithms are available:

• ID3: J.R.QUINLAN : « Induction of Decision Trees », in Machine Learning, 1, pp.81-106, 1986.
• C4.5: Quinlan J.R., « C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning », Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1993).
• Elisee: BOUROCHE J.P., TENENHAUS N., « Quelques méthodes de segmentation », in RAIRO, 42, pp.29-42, 1970.
• CART: BREIMAN L., FRIEDMAN J.H., OLSHEN R.A., STONE C.J., « Classification and Regression Trees », Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, 1984.
• Chi2-Link (ChAID): KASS G.V., "An exploratory technique for investigating large quantities of categorical data", in Applied Statistics, 24(2), 1975.
• QR_MDL: « Inferring Decision Trees using the Minimum Description length principle », in Information and Computation, 80, pp.227-248, 1989.
• Sipina: Zighed 1985

Notes

This version of Sipina while having many features was not chosen because it is quite an old software package. The latest version was developed in 1998 and it is no longer being updated.