Preface
In writing this book we have three primary objectives. First, we want to provide the reader with an understanding of the types of business problems that advanced analytical tools can address and to provide some insight into the challenges that organizations face in taking profitable advantage of these tools.
Our second objective is to give the reader an intuitive understanding of how different data mining algorithms work. This discussion is largely non-mathematical in nature. However, in places where we think the mathematics is an important aid to intuitive understanding (such as is the case with logistic regression), we provide and explain the underlying mathematics. Given the proper motivation, we think that many readers will find the ...
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