Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition

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The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems Series Editor:Jim Gray, Microsoft Research Data Mining: Practical Machine ...

Data Mining Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition Ian H. Witten Department of Computer Science Univers ...

Publisher: Diane Cerra Publishing Services Manager: Simon Crump Project Manager: Brandy Lilly Editorial Assistant: Asma Stephan ...

Foreword Jim Gray, Series Editor Microsoft Research Technology now allows us to capture and store vast quantities of data. Findi ...

This book presents this new discipline in a very accessible form: as a text both to train the next generation of practitioners a ...

Contents Foreword v Preface xxiii Updated and revised content xxvii Acknowledgments xxix Part I Machine learning tools and techn ...

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CONTENTS xv 1.4 Machine learning and statistics 1.5 Generalization as search Enumerating the concept space Bias 1.6 Data mini ...

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List of Figures Figure 1.1 Rules for the contact lens data. 13 Figure 1.2 Decision tree for the contact lens data. 14 Figure 1.3 ...

Figure 4.10 The perceptron: (a) learning rule and (b) representation as a neural network. 125 Figure 4.11 The Winnow algorithm: ...

Figure 6.18 Hierarchical clusterings of the iris data. 259 Figure 6.19 A two-class mixture model. 264 Figure 6.20 A simple Bayes ...