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Subject: Re: Data Mining blooper and Related Subjects
...And it extends even further. Many of us who toil in areas outside of
academia have our work and productivity "supervised" by managers or
directors who have little or no training in statistics, beyond a survey
c
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I'd like to make a somewhat related point. There are many educational
tools that I've found have a great effect on non-statisticians. One if these
is to take one of their datasets, randomly permute the column of Y-values,
go through their
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Subject: Re: Data Mining blooper and Related Subjects
...And it extends even further. Many of us who toil in areas outside of
academia have our work and productivity "supervis
I have been following the discussion on Data Mining blooper for a while.
Being a first year graduate student in statistics, my comments on this issue
might sound premature. Nevertheless, I would put forward my observations.
What I have learnt so far from my interaction with the statisticians
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I think, now is the time when we have to decide "Do we accept DATA MINING as
a part of statistics or do we keep neglecting this field as before".
I am sure there would be few statistics students like me who feel that Data
Mining is very much
In article 002601bfaf29$cfbaa9a0$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
David A. Heiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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While hunting for URLs for
At 07:57 AM 4/26/00 -0500, Herman Rubin wrote:
It does not surprise me one bit. The typical statistics
course teaches statistical methods and pronouncements, with
no attempt to achieve understanding. snip of more
this is something i happen to agree with herman about ... but, it is a
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Subject: Data Mining blooper
While hunting for URLs for KDCentral.com, I encountered several
misleading statements about Statistics made by Data Mining
