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In this contribution we take a look at the computational effort statistics as described by Koza. We transfer the notion from generational genetic programming to tournament-selection (steady-state) GP and show why, in both cases, the measured value of the effort often differs from its theoretical counterpart. It is discussed how systematic estimation errors are introduced by a low number of experiments. Two reasons examined are the number of unsuccessful experiments and the variation in the number of fitness evaluations necessary to find a solution among the successful experiments.
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Niehaus, J., Banzhaf, W. (2003). More on Computational Effort Statistics for Genetic Programming. In: Ryan, C., Soule, T., Keijzer, M., Tsang, E., Poli, R., Costa, E. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2610. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36599-0_15
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