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Chapter 2 Principal Model Types

can generate rules that produce a model prediction. After all, a neural

network that learns to classify credit applicants into Good, Review, and

Reject is making a prediction about the probable future fate of a loan.

2.3 Review

From an understanding of distributed intelligence and data mining in

Chapter 1, this brief chapter provides a review of the various forms a

model can take. Model building is more than applying statistics, creating

rules, or generating a decision tree. Model building involves understand-

ing the nature of the problem and finding the system representation that

best reflects the expectations of the consumer, the capabilities of the sys-

tems engineer, and the availability of supporting data. From ...