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Descriptive Data Mining

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Part of the book series: Computational Risk Management ((Comp. Risk Mgmt))

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This book addresses the basic aspect of data mining , descriptive analytics . As stated in the preface, this concerns studying what has happened, looking at various forms of statistics to gain understanding of the state of whatever field is being examined. The book begins with a chapter on knowledge management , seeking to provide a context of analytics in the overall framework of information management.

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Olson, D.L. (2017). Descriptive Data Mining. In: Descriptive Data Mining. Computational Risk Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3340-7_8

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