Handbook of Statistical Analysis: AI and ML Applications - Brossura

Nisbet, Robert, Ph.D.; McCormick, Keith; Miner, Gary, Ph.D.

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ISBN 10: 0443158452 ISBN 13: 9780443158452

Casa editrice: Academic Pr, 2024

Riassunto

Handbook of Statistical Analysis: AI and ML Applications, third edition, is a comprehensive introduction to all stages of data analysis, data preparation, model building, and model evaluation. This valuable resource is useful to students and professionals across a variety of fields and settings: business analysts, scientists, engineers, and researchers in academia and industry. General descriptions of algorithms together with case studies help readers understand technical and business problems, weigh the strengths and weaknesses of modern data analysis algorithms, and employ the right analytical methods for practical application.

This resource is an ideal guide for users who want to address massive and complex datasets with many standard analytical approaches and be able to evaluate analyses and solutions objectively. It includes clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques; offers accessible tutorials; and discusses their application to real-world problems.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Bob Nisbet, PhD, is a Data Scientist, currently modeling precancerous colon polyp presence with clinical data at the UC-Irvine Medical Center. He has experience in predictive modeling in Telecommunications, Insurance, Credit, Banking. His academic experience includes teaching in Ecology and in Data Science. His industrial experience includes predictive modeling at AT&T, NCR, and FICO. He has worked also in Insurance, Credit, membership organizations (e.g. AAA), Education, and Health Care industries. He retired as an Assistant Vice President of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust in charge of business intelligence reporting and customer relationship management (CRM) modeling.

Dr. Gary Miner PhD received a B.S. from Hamline University, St. Paul, MN, with biology, chemistry, and education majors; an M.S. in zoology and population genetics from the University of Wyoming; and a Ph.D. in biochemical genetics from the University of Kansas as the recipient of a NASA pre-doctoral fellowship. He pursued additional National Institutes of Health postdoctoral studies at the U of Minnesota and U of Iowa eventually becoming immersed in the study of affective disorders and Alzheimer's disease.

In 1985, he and his wife, Dr. Linda Winters-Miner, founded the Familial Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation, which became a leading force in organizing both local and international scientific meetings, bringing together all the leaders in the field of genetics of Alzheimer's from several countries, resulting in the first major book on the genetics of Alzheimer’s disease. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Miner turned his data analysis interests to the business world, joining the team at StatSoft and deciding to specialize in data mining. He started developing what eventually became the Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications (co-authored with Drs. Robert A. Nisbet and John Elder), which received the 2009 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE). Their follow-up collaboration, Practical Text Mining and Statistical Analysis for Non-structured Text Data Applications, also received a PROSE award in February of 2013. Gary was also co-author of “Practical Predictive Analytics and Decisioning Systems for Medicine (Academic Press, 2015). Overall, Dr. Miner’s career has focused on medicine and health issues, and the use of data analytics (statistics and predictive analytics) in analyzing medical data to decipher fact from fiction.

Gary has also served as Merit Reviewer for PCORI (Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute) that awards grants for predictive analytics research into the comparative effectiveness and heterogeneous treatment effects of medical interventions including drugs among different genetic groups of patients; additionally he teaches on-line classes in ‘Introduction to Predictive Analytics’, ‘Text Analytics’, ‘Risk Analytics’, and ‘Healthcare Predictive Analytics’ for the University of California-Irvine. Recently, until ‘official retirement’ 18 months ago, he spent most of his time in his primary role as Senior Analyst-Healthcare Applications Specialist for Dell | Information Management Group, Dell Software (through Dell’s acquisition of StatSoft (www.StatSoft.com) in April 2014). Currently Gary is working on two new short popular books on ‘Healthcare Solutions for the USA’ and ‘Patient-Doctor Genomics Stories’.

Keith McCormick is a highly accomplished professional consultant, mentor, and trainer, having served as keynote and moderator at international conferences focused on analytic practitioners and leadership alike. Keith has leveraged statistical software since 1990 along with deep expertise utilizing popular industry advanced analytics solutions such as IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM SPSS Modeler, KNIME, popular open-source and other tools involving text and big data analytics. Keith is currently Data Science Principal with Further.

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Handbook of Statistical Analysis: AI and ML Applications, third edition, is a comprehensive introduction to all stages of data analysis, data preparation, model building, and model evaluation. This valuable resource is useful to students and professionals across a variety of fields and settings: business analysts, scientists, engineers, and researchers in academia and industry. General descriptions of algorithms together with case studies help readers understand technical and business problems, weigh the strengths and weaknesses of modern data analysis algorithms, and employ the right analytical methods for practical application.

This resource is an ideal guide for users who want to address massive and complex datasets with many standard analytical approaches and be able to evaluate analyses and solutions objectively. It includes clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques; offers accessible tutorials; and discusses their application to real-world problems.


Key features:

• Brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner needs to understand the tools and issues in data analytics to build successful predictive analytic solutions
• Provides in-depth descriptions and directions for performing many data preparation operations necessary to generate data sets in the proper form and format for submission to modeling algorithms
• Features clear, intuitive explanations of standard analytical tools and techniques and their practical applications
• Provides a number of case studies to guide practitioners in the design of analytical applications to solve real-world problems in their data domain
• Offers valuable tutorials on the book webpage with step-by-step instructions on how to use suggested tools to build models
• Provides predictive insights into the rapidly expanding “Intelligence Age” as it takes over from the “Information Age,” enabling readers to easily transition the book’s content into the tools of the future

The front cover depicts three visual scenes with which we might associate three word-phrases: “Getting it Right” – for the top Mountain scene, Mother Nature “got it right” in the uplifting Grand Teton Mountains of NW Wyoming, USA; “Sense out of Chaos” – for the middle auto traffic scene, the chaos of driving in a very large city changes to “sense” when interchanges and traffic signs are engineered to clearly direct one’s paths; and “Truth – Sunrise from the Future” – for the bottom coastal ocean scene, when data cleaning and analytics are applied correctly, TRUTH will emerge in the sunrise of tomorrow. This is what the ML and AI and associated predictive analytic methods described in this book can do. Readers of this book who make use of the methods described within will be able to apply appropriate tools that will give them the best chance of “Getting it Right” for your applications.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Academic Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• ISBN 10: 0443158452
• ISBN 13: 9780443158452
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 472
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile