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The go-to resource for data miners

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Elsevier

The Handbook of Statistical Analysis & Data Mining Applications, by Robert Nisbet, John Elder, IV, and Gary Miner is a comprehensive, professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The handbook helps one discern the technical and business problem, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques, and discusses their application to real problems, in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across industries—from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce.

"Going beyond its responsibility as a reference book, (the book) also provides detailed tutorials with step-by-step instructions to drive established data mining software tools across real world applications. If you want to roll up your sleeves and execute on predictive analytics, this is your definite, go-to resource. To put it lightly, if this book isn't on your shelf, you're not a data miner." says Eric Siegel, PhD, President, Prediction Impact, Inc., San Francisco, and Founding Chair, Predictive Analytics World

Written 'By Practitioners for Practitioners', the non-technical explanations build understanding without jargon and equations. A DVD, bound with the book includes – additional tutorials utlizing the most broadly used software by SAS, SPSS and StatSoft, Inc, data sets, and MS PowerPoint slides.

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ISBN: 9780123747655
Pub Date: May 29, 2009
Price: $89.95/€57.95/£45.99
Page Count: 900


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