September 2007
Beginner
628 pages
12h 29m
English
Exploratory modeling (sometimes known as data mining) is the process of exploring large amounts of data, usually using an automated method, to find patterns and discoveries. JMP has two platforms especially designed for exploratory modeling: the Partition platform and the Neural Net platform.
The Partition platforms recursively partitions data, automatically splitting the data at optimum points. The result is a decision tree that classifies each observation into a group. The classic example is turning a table of symptoms and diagnoses of a certain illness into a hierarchy of assessments to be evaluated on new patients.
The Neural Net platform implements a standard type of neural network. Neural nets are used ...
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