DATA MINING Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
Desktop Survival Project Home List of Figures List of Tables Data Mining Data Mining Data Mining with Rattle Introduction Data Transform Explore A Model Building Framework Unsupervised Modelling Two Class Models Multi Class Models Regression Models Text Mining Evaluation and Deployment Moving into R Troubleshooting R for the Data Miner R Data Graphics in R Understanding Data Preparing Data Building Models Evaluating Models Algorithms Apriori Bagging Bayes Classifier Boosting Cluster Analysis Conditional Trees Hierarchical Clustering K-Means K-Nearest Neighbours Linear Models Logistic Regression Neural Networks Support Vector Machines Text Mining Open Products AlphaMiner Borgelt Data Mining Suite KNime R Rattle Weka Closed Products C4.5 Clementine Equbits Foresight GhostMiner InductionEngine ODM Enterprise Miner Statistica Data Miner TreeNet Virtual Predict Appendicies Glossary Bibliography Index

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C5.0: A commercial decision tree and rule induction product from www.rulequest.comRuleQuest developed by Ross Quinlan as the successor to his very successful and widely used ID3 and C4.5 systems.

Churn: The process of customer turnover, as occurs in many consumer service providers such as telecommunications and credit providers.

Classification:

Coevolution: An Evolutionary Computation paradigm where both the measure of fitness and the solution evolve separately and affect each other.

Computational Intelligence: Describes numerically based Artificial Intelligence systems distinguished from Symbolic Intelligence. Generally covers Evolutionary Computation, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic.

Cross Validation: A method of comparing or confirming performance of predictive models by estimating the error that would be produced by a model. Cross validation is also used to compare one method of inducing a predictive model (called an inducer) with another inducer. Cross validation can also be used to refine the parameters of a particular inducer. In this case the inducer's parameters are refined to minimise the error in the model produced. A k-fold cross validation will build k models from k datasets.

Confidence:

Cubist: A commercial piecewise-linear regression product from RuleQuest developed by Ross Quinlan. Uses decision tree induction to identify subsets of the data on which to perform regression.

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