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Department of Statistics

STAT828: Data Mining

Lecturer in charge

 Dr Ayse Bilgin

Availability

E1 - Evening; Offered in the first half-year

Unit Outline

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Description

Data mining is widely used in large insurance companies, market research organisations, banks and other financial institutions. Various relevant multivariate methods will be introduced and their application demonstrated using one of the major data mining packages. Included will be a discussion of data mining algorithms, classification, prediction and retrieval systems.