Glossary

Data Mining

Data Mining:

Data mining is concerned with finding latent patterns in large data bases. The goal is to discover unsuspected relationships that are of practical importance, e.g., in business.

A broad range of statistical and machine learning approaches are used in data mining. See, for example, XLMiner online help for description of the major techniques specific to data mining.

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