4TechniquesofDM绪论.ppt

* We obtain these probabilities from training data. The probabilities are the estimated values, not the true values. * Clustering algorithms find groups of items that are similar. For example, clustering could be used by an insurance company to group customers according to income, age, types of policies purchased and prior claims experience. It divides a data set so that records with similar content are in the same group, and groups are as different as possible from each other. Since the categories are unspecified, this is sometimes referred to as unsupervised learning. * A data record may