Re: DM: Pros & cons of various data mining methods

[Stuart M Bailey]

Alan,

If you don't already know about it, the book

"Advances in Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining"
Fayyad, Piatetsky-Shapiro, Uthurusamy - Editors
AAAI Press/MIT Press

contains a decent cross section of some of the different catagories of
algorithms.  Section titles include:

Foundations, Classification & Clustering, Trend & Deviation Analysis,
Dependency Derivation 

there are also sections on applications.  

Though there is not a rigorous comparison, as a reader you should be 
able
to see where the different types algorithms would best apply.

I hope that helps,

Stu

Stuart Bailey
sbailey@uic.edu

On Wed, 16 Jul 1997, alan wrote:

> I should be very appreciative if anyone of you could direct me to
> the appropriate web pages or papers that compare the relative 
>merits of
> various data mining algorithms/techniques.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> 
> Alan
>