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The handbook of statistical analysis & data mining applications.

Database and Network Journal

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Robert Nisbet, John Elder, IV, and Gary Miner

ISBN: 9780123747655, Pub Date: May 29, 2009 Price: $89.95/57.95 [euro]/45.99 [pounds sterling]. Page Count: c864

Excert Section: Chapter 2

Theoretical Considerations for Data Mining

PREAMBLE

In Chapter 1, we explored the historical background of statistical analysis and data mining. Statistical analysis is a relatively old discipline (particularly if you consider its origins in China). But data mining is a relatively new field, which developed during the 1990s and coalesced into a field of its own during the early years of the twenty-first century. It represents a confluence of several well-established fields of interest:

* Traditional statistical analysis

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