Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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I Why Data Mining Is Important |
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What Is Customer-Centric Data Mining? |
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Customer Relationship Management |
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The Strategic Information Imperative |
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5 | (2) |
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Distilling Knowledge from Data |
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Who Benefits from Data Mining |
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Past Experience Can Be Used to Predict Future Events |
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11 | (1) |
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Data Mining Builds Customer Relationships |
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12 | (2) |
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Data Mining Yields Customer Knowledge |
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14 | (3) |
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Data Mining as Part of Your CRM Strategy Can Enhance Your Competitive Position |
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17 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (2) |
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How Data Mining Can Enhance Your Services and Products |
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Improved Sales and Service |
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24 | (3) |
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Customer Interaction Center (CIC) |
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27 | (1) |
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Data Mining Can Help You Improve Your Products |
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28 | (2) |
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30 | (1) |
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Data Mining Can Solve Your Most Difficult Problems |
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32 | (1) |
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Data Mining Solves Four Problems |
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Business Intelligence Problems Are Difficult |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (19) |
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55 | (2) |
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57 | (18) |
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Discovery and Exploitation |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (1) |
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Data Mining Methodologies |
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61 | (2) |
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Conventional System Development: Waterfall Process |
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63 | (2) |
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Data Mining: Rapid Prototyping |
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A Generic Data Mining Project ``Schedule'' |
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72 | (2) |
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74 | (1) |
II Pillars of the Data Mining Framework |
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The Information Technology of Business Intelligence |
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Business Intelligence Tools |
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78 | (5) |
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83 | (5) |
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Business Intelligence Applications |
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88 | (1) |
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89 | (1) |
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Business Intelligence Philosophy |
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89 | (3) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (14) |
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94 | (1) |
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Representation: Quantization and Coding |
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94 | (2) |
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Feature Extraction and Enhancement |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (3) |
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Relevance and Independence of Features |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (1) |
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102 | (2) |
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Demographic and Behavioral Customer Data |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (2) |
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The Mathematics of Data Mining |
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107 | (30) |
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Introducing Feature Space |
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107 | (4) |
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Moderate Statistics Apply |
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111 | (4) |
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115 | (2) |
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Standard Deviation and Z-score |
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117 | (3) |
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120 | (3) |
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Feature Space Computations |
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123 | (4) |
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127 | (2) |
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Making Feature Sets for Data Mining |
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129 | (5) |
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134 | (1) |
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135 | (2) |
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Data Mining Techniques: Knowledge Discovery |
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137 | (22) |
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137 | (3) |
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Taxonomy of Knowledge Discovery Techniques |
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Cluster Analysis and Auto-Clustering |
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141 | (5) |
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146 | (3) |
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149 | (10) |
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Data Mining Techniques: More Knowledge Discovery |
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Rule Induction and Decision Trees |
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159 | (23) |
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Ten Rules Created from the Data Files |
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Rules Created from Data File |
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188 | (2) |
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Rules Created from Data File |
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190 | (1) |
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Data Mining Techniques: Predictive Models |
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191 | (36) |
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Surveying Predictive Modeling Techniques |
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192 | (1) |
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Current Techniques Have the Power |
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193 | (5) |
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198 | (1) |
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Polynomial Regression Models |
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199 | (10) |
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Machine Learning and Predictive Models |
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209 | (3) |
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212 | (1) |
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Decision Values and Decision Surfaces |
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212 | (3) |
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Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) |
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215 | (1) |
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Training a Simple Neural Network |
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216 | (8) |
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More Complex Decision Surfaces |
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224 | (3) |
III Data Mining Management |
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227 | (40) |
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Common Reasons Data Mining Projects Fail |
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229 | (14) |
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Data Mining's Seven Deadly Sins |
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230 | (11) |
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241 | (2) |
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243 | (14) |
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Correlated/Irrelevant Features |
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243 | (2) |
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245 | (1) |
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245 | (2) |
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247 | (1) |
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Missing or Unreliable Ground-Truth |
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248 | (2) |
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Making Good Feature Sets from Bad Ones |
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250 | (2) |
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Associative Feature Selection |
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252 | (2) |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (2) |
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Successful Data Mining Project Management |
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257 | (10) |
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258 | (1) |
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259 | (1) |
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260 | (2) |
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262 | (4) |
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266 | (1) |
IV Data Mining in Vertical Industries |
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267 | (88) |
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269 | (6) |
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269 | (3) |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (2) |
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Data Mining in Customer Service |
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275 | (8) |
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275 | (1) |
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Challenges in Customer Service |
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275 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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276 | (1) |
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Case Study: Effective Customer-Centric Marketing |
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276 | (5) |
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281 | (2) |
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283 | (6) |
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283 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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284 | (1) |
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Case Study: Catalog Retailer Database Marketing Program |
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284 | (3) |
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287 | (2) |
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289 | (8) |
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289 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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290 | (1) |
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Case Study: Workers' Compensation Liability Prediction |
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291 | (4) |
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295 | (2) |
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Data Mining in Financial Services |
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297 | (10) |
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297 | (1) |
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298 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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298 | (3) |
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Case Study: Direct Marketing Profiling |
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301 | (4) |
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305 | (2) |
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Data Mining in Health Care and Medicine |
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307 | (8) |
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307 | (1) |
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308 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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309 | (2) |
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Case Study: Predicting Patient Diagnosis for PVD |
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311 | (2) |
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313 | (2) |
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Data Mining in Telecommunications |
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315 | (14) |
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315 | (1) |
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Challenges in the Telecommunications Industry |
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315 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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316 | (1) |
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Case Study: Modeling Direct Marketing Response for a Communication Service |
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316 | (3) |
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Case Study: A Predictive Model for Telecom Credit Risk |
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319 | (8) |
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Choosing Features for Profiling |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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Data Mining in Transportation and Logistics |
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329 | (10) |
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329 | (1) |
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329 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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330 | (1) |
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Case Study: Maximizing Revenue Through Forecasting |
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330 | (5) |
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Case Study: Vehicle Tracking Optimization |
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335 | (3) |
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338 | (1) |
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339 | (10) |
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339 | (1) |
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Challenges Faced by the Energy Industry |
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339 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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339 | (1) |
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Case Study: A ``Shocking'' Problem---Hypothetical Prototype Iterations |
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340 | (6) |
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Case Study: Forecasting Energy Consumption |
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346 | (2) |
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348 | (1) |
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Data Mining in Government |
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349 | (6) |
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349 | (1) |
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349 | (1) |
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General Data Mining Applications |
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350 | (1) |
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Pattern Recognition Study |
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350 | (3) |
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353 | (2) |
A Glossary |
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B Bibliography |
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363 | (4) |
C Vendor Information |
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367 | (4) |
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367 | (1) |
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368 | (3) |
D Statistics 101 |
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371 | (4) |
E Techniques Listed by Methodology Phase |
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375 | (4) |
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Problem Definition (Step 1) |
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375 | (1) |
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375 | (1) |
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Feature Extraction and Enhancement (Step 3) |
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376 | (1) |
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Prototyping/Model Development (Step 4) |
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377 | (1) |
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Model Evaluation (Step 5) |
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378 | (1) |
Index |
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