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Methods

  There are different methods for Data Mining, that can be classified according to output and characterization of the algorithms. The first two methods make predictive patterns from data, the last three make informative patterns. The difference is that the predictive patterns give an educated guess on the value of a feature, given some known features. The informative patterns are patterns that are interesting to a domain expert. Each method is described, and illustrated by a small example.


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Torgeir Dingsoyr
2/26/1998