The book lays the foundations of data analysis, pattern mining, clustering, classification and regression, with a focus on the algorithms and the underlying algebraic, geometric, and probabilistic ...

It also discusses classification model evaluation and comparison ... It also covers some advanced methods for mining complex data, as well as the research frontiers of the data mining field.

Predictive analytics, pattern recognition, and classification problems are not new. Long used in the financial services and insurance industries, predictive analytics is about using statistics, data ...