Statistics
Statistics studies the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It serves as the foundation of data mining and the relations will be illustrated in the following sections.
Statistics and data mining
Statisticians were the first to use the term data mining. Originally, data mining was a derogatory term referring to attempts to extract information that was not supported by the data. To some extent, data mining constructs statistical models, which is an underlying distribution, used to visualize data.
Data mining has an inherent relationship with statistics; one of the mathematical foundations of data mining is statistics, and many statistics models are used in data mining.
Statistical methods can be used ...
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