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Bertrand Clarke · Ernest Fokoue´ · Hao Helen Zhang
Principles and Theory
for Data Mining
and Machine Learning
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Bertrand Clarke Ernest Fokoue´
University of Miami Center for Quality and Applied Statistics
120 NW 14th Street Rochester Institute of Technology
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Miami, FL, 33136 Rochester, NY 14623
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Hao Helen Zhang
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
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Raleigh, NC 27695-8203
USA
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ISSN 0172-7397
ISBN 978-0-387-98134-5 e-ISBN 978-0-387-98135-2
DOI -0-387-98135-2
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Preface
The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and
Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North
Carolina starting in fall 2003. The first author was there for a t