Acknowledgments

At the beginning of this project, I had many discussions with my son Ravi Sarma about practical aspects of modeling techniques, especially neural networks and decision trees. Ravi, who was then a graduate student at MIT working on a neural networks project, read the manuscript at several stages and contributed editorial assistance, in-depth questions, and insightful comments that greatly improved the text. Ravi has been a source of encouragement and intellectual support during the entire project.

I am grateful to Linda Kellogg for helping me in the customized installation of various versions of SAS Enterprise Miner and for coming to my rescue whenever I faced a technical question. The second edition of this book would not have ...

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