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Article: Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Technometrics
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- February 1, 2004
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Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, edited by Hamparsum BOZDOGAN. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. 2004. ISBN 1-58488-344-8. xxviii + 588 pp., $99.95.
This book emanates from an international conference in Knoxville. Tennessee in June 2002. The book's 34 chapters represent a selection of the 70 papers presented at the conference. Eight interesting keynote lectures are listed in the Preface (p. viii), but unfortunately only three of these landed in the book. The conference apparently was very much an academic affair with 33 of the 36 authors from academia and only 1 from industry.
The book chapters appear in apparent random order. The ...