"Data Mining" is a loosely and vaguely defined term that refers to things that
people do to understand and explore data. It means different things when used
by different people. It may mean one of the following:
1. Classical data analysis/statistical modeling such as linear regression.
2. AI stuff (neural networks, fuzzy logic, MARS, nearest neighbor, etc)
3. Database architecture and data warehousing. More like computer science
instead of statistics. One good example is the the "Data mining Review"
magazine. Check out their web site and you will realize that it has little to
do with statistics: http://www.dmreview.com/
K. Freeman
Debasmit Mohanty wrote:
> 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 the part of statistics.
>
> Thanks
> Debasmit
>
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