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Chapter 1
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“data mining implementation”
“data mining implementations”
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“view as a process”
“viewed as a process”
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“1. Business understanding phase”
“1. Business/Research Understanding Phase”
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“in brief a”
“in brief, a”
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The sentences in the bulleted list have periods (.)
However, the sentences in similarly formatted bulleted lists on
pages 13, 14, and 17 do not have periods.
“(drugs B and C)” and “(drugs A and X)”
“(drugs B or C)” and “(drugs A or X)”
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“estrogens, or other medications, or are”
“estrogens, other medications, or are”
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“(Chapter 6), and neural network”
“(Chapter 6), and neural networks”
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“bankruptcy from crisis conditions, as opposed to normal
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“bankruptcy from crisis-conditions, as opposed to normalconditions” (match other usage examples in the case study)
Chapter 2
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“as our poor customer 1004 has”
“customer 1004’s reported income”
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customer 1002
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Replace all uses of variable cylinder to cylinders
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“and not in error”
“and not an error”
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“tells us that we may expect variables values”
“tells us that we may expect variable values”
Chapter 3
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“perhaps not quite as the high as that for the”
“perhaps not quite as high as that for the”
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“distribution is right-skewed, with a mode at one call.”
“distribution is right-skewed, with a mode of one call.”
Chapter 4
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“a peek at the eight of these fields for the first 16 cereals”
“a peek at eight of these fields for the first 15 cereals”
Page 76
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“First 16 Cereals”
“First 15 Cereals”
Located in the Table 4.4 caption
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“coefficients for all the variables, shown in the Table 4.6”
“coefficients for all the variables, shown in Table 4.6”
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“The first column (in bold) shows”
“The first column shows”
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“Fibre”
“Fiber”
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Located in Table 4.6
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“This indicates that our multiple regression models accounts”
“This indicates that our multiple regression model accounts”
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“reducing the functionality of model and”
“reducing the functionality of the model and”
Chapter 5
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“The straight line in has the benefit”
“The straight line has the benefit”
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“new patient 3.”
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different ( xi ' yi )
different ( xi , yi )
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d(A, C) =
(20  20) 2  12  1
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d(A, C) =
(50  50) 2  12  1
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Text (Three references): Figure 5.5
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Figure 5.8
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Text (caption to Table 5.3): Figure 5.4
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Figure 5.7
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from 0.16783 to 0.17643
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from 0.26737 to 0.09756