Covers the key topics of assessing the quality of the results and handling uncertainty in data mining.

Focuses on the quality assessment of the results and the use of uncertainty in data mining rather than providing a general treatment of the subject of data mining

Inhalt
Data Mining Process.- 2.1 Introduction to the Main Concepts of Data Mining.- 2.2 Knowledge and Data Mining.- 2.3 The Data Mining Process.- 2.4 Classification of Data Mining Methods.- 2.5 Overview of Data Mining Tasks.- 2.6 Summary.- References.- Quality Assessment in Data Mining.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Data Pre-processing and Quality Assessment.- 3.3 Evaluation of Classification Methods.- 3.4 Association Rules.- 3.5 Cluster Validity.- 3.6 Summary.- References.- Uncertainty Handling in Data Mining.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Basic Concepts on Fuzzy Logic.- 4.3 Basic Concepts on Probabilistic Theory.- 4.4 Probabilistic and Fuzzy Approaches.- 4.5 The EM Algorithm.- 4.6 Fuzzy Cluster Analysis.- 4.7 Fuzzy Classification Approaches.- 4.8 Managing Uncertainty and Quality in the Classification Process.- 4.9 Fuzzy Association Rules.- 4.10 Summary.- References.- UMiner: A Data Mining System Handling Uncertainty and Quality.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 UMiner Development Approach.- 5.3 System Architecture.- 5.4 UMiner's Data Mining Tasks.- 5.5 Demonstration.- 5.6 Summary.- References.- Case Studies.- 6.1 Extracting Association Rules for Medical Data Analysis.- 6.2 The Mining Process.- 6.3 Cluster Analysis of Epidemiological Data.- References.