数据挖掘导论 习题的答案.pdf

Introduction to Data Mining Instructor’s Solution Manual Pang-Ning Tan Michael Steinbach Vipin Kumar c Copyright 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Data 5 3 Exploring Data 19 4 Classification: Basic Concepts, Decision Trees, and Model Evaluation 25 5 Classification: Alternative Techniques 45 6 Association Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms 71 7 Association Analysis: Advanced Concepts 95 8 Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts and Algorithms 125 9 Cluster Analysis: Additional Issues and Algorithms 147 10 Anomaly Detection 157 iii 1 Introduction 1. Discuss whether or not each of the following activities is a data mining task. (a) Dividing the customers of a company according to their gender. No. This is a simple database query. (b) Dividing the customers of a company according to their prof- itability. No. This is an accounting calculation, followed by the applica- tion of a threshold. However, predicting the profitability of a new customer would be data mining. (c) Computing the total sales of a company. No. Again, this is simple accounting. (d) Sorting a student database based on student identification num- bers. No. Again, this is a simple datab