%0 Journal Article %T Composi£¿£¿o de especialistas locais para classifica£¿£¿o de dados %A Santos %A Omar J. S. %A Milioni %A Armando Z. %J Investiga£¿£¿o Operacional %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this paper we present a mixture of local experts model (mlem) for data classification. the discriminant tools applied are fisher's discriminant analysis, logistic regression and a non-parametric model called extended dea-da (sueyoshi, 2004). using real data, we compare the results obtained with the mlem, which requires data clusterization and solution investigation on each cluster, against results obtained with a more orthodox approach, which is classification over the entire data set. the main conclusion is that even though it seems to be a promising technique, the additional effort in building a mlem does not assure better results. %K mixture of local expert models %K discriminant analysis %K clustering %K extended dea-da. %U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0874-51612005000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en