Data Mining - Mehmed Kantardzic [1]
APPENDIX B: DATA-MINING APPLICATIONS
B.1 DATA MINING FOR FINANCIAL DATA ANALYSIS
B.2 DATA MINING FOR THE TELECOMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
B.3 DATA MINING FOR THE RETAIL INDUSTRY
B.4 DATA MINING IN HEALTH CARE AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
B.5 DATA MINING IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
B.6 PITFALLS OF DATA MINING
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Kantardzic, Mehmed.
Data mining : concepts, models, methods, and algorithms / Mehmed Kantardzic. – 2nd ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-470-89045-5 (cloth)
1. Data mining. I. Title.
QA76.9.D343K36 2011
006.3'12–dc22
2011002190
oBook ISBN: 978-1-118-02914-5
ePDF ISBN: 978-1-118-02912-1
ePub ISBN: 978-1-118-02913-8
To Belma and Nermin
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
In the seven years that have passed since the publication of the first edition of this book, the field of data mining has made a good progress both in developing new methodologies and in extending the spectrum of new applications. These changes in data mining motivated me to update my data-mining book with a second edition. Although the core of material in this edition remains