DM: KDD Classes

[Dan Steinberg]

Per Douglas Sur's inquiry about data mining courses in the Washington 
D.C.
area, the American Statistical Association offers a course titled 
"Data
Mining with Decision Trees-An Introduction to CARTŪ " 

This one-day introductory course is coming to the Washington DC area 
on March 6
and to Philadelphia on March 9.  It presupposes minimal statistical 
background.

see             www.amstat.org for more information.  

A short description of the course follows:

DATA MINING WITH DECISION TREES-AN INTRODUCTION TO CARTŪ (tm).  This 
one-day
course is intended for the practitioner wanting to learn about the 
decision
tree methodology, in particular, why you would want to use it, what 
its
advantages are relative to classical statistical techniques, and how 
it can
be used as an effective data mining tool.  The emphasis will be on 
using
the advanced technology embodied in CARTŪ  (Classification and 
Regression
Trees) for practical data analysis involving classification.  All 
concepts
will be illustrated using real world examples drawn primarily from
biomedical and market research applications.  The course will also 
include
a discussion of the comparative performance of CARTŪ  versus other
computer-intensive methods such as artificial neural networks and
statistician-generated parametric models.

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