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Applications Of Statistical Data Mining Methods, George Fernandez

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

Data mining is a collection of analytical techniques to uncover new trends and patterns in large databases. These data mining techniques stress visualization to thoroughly study the structure of data and to check the validity of statistical model fit to the data and lead to knowledge discovery. Data mining is an interdisciplinary research area spanning several disciplines such as database management, machine learning, statistical computing, and expert systems. Although data mining is a relatively new term, the technology is not. Data mining allows users to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, explore and categorize it, and summarize the …