Fuzzy Modeling and Genetic Algorithms for Data Mining and Exploration

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Chapter 3

Approaches to

Model Building

As we saw earlier, discovery is not a single discipline but involves a

combination of many techniques and technologies. Some of these tech-

niques are used in combination with others as support or filtering services,

whereas others constitute the major components of the data mining service.

We now review some of the major methods of data mining and knowledge

discovery.

This section is not intended as an exhaustive or even partially complete

description of the various model building techniques (and this is espe-

cially true of the section on statistics). The primer is intended simply

as an overview of each methodology, including brief observations of

strengths and weaknesses. Comments about the relative merits