TY - BOOK AU - Giudici, Paolo TI - Applied data mining : statistical methods for business and industry SN - 9812531785 U1 - 658.802 GIU PY - 2005/// CY - England PB - John Wiley KW - Data mining KW - Business--Data processing KW - Commercial statistics N1 - Gratis; pt. 1. Methodology. Organisation of the data -- Summary statistics -- Model specification -- Model evaluation -- pt. 2. Business Case Studies. Describing website visitors -- Market basket analysis -- Describing customer satisfaction -- Predicting credit risk of small businesses -- Predicting e-learning student performance -- Predicting customer lifetime value -- Operational risk management N2 - The increasing availability of data in our current, information-overloaded society has led to the need for valid tools for its modelling and analysis. Data mining and applied statistical methods are the appropriate tools to extract knowledge from such data. This book provides an accessible introduction to data mining methods in a consistent and application-oriented statistical framework, using case studies drawn from real industry projects and highlighting the use of data mining methods in a variety of business applications ER -