Decision Trees for Analytics Using SAS Enterprise Miner is the most comprehensive treatment of decision tree theory, use, and applications available in one easy-to-access place. This book illustrates the application and operation of decision trees in business intelligence, data mining, business analytics, prediction, and knowledge discovery. It explains in detail the use of decision trees as a data mining technique and how this technique complements and supplements data mining approaches such as regression, as well as other business intelligence applications that incorporate tabular reports, OLAP, or multidimensional cubes. An expanded and enhanced release of Decision Trees for Business Intelligence and Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner, this book adds up-to-date treatments of boosting and high-performance forest approaches and rule induction. There is a dedicated section on the most recent findings related to bias reduction in variable selection. It provides an exhaustive treatment of the end-to-end process of decision tree construction and the respective considerations and algorithms, and it includes discussions of key issues in decision tree practice. Analysts who have an introductory understanding of data mining and who are looking for a more advanced, in-depth look at the theory and methods of a decision tree approach to business intelligence and data mining will benefit from this book.

« Written for business analysts, data scientists, statisticians, students, predictive modelers, and data miners, this comprehensive text provides examples that will strengthen your understanding of the essential concepts and methods of predictive modeling. »--

This book shows you how to build decision tree models to predict a categorical target and how to build regression tree models to predict a continuous target. Some examples are presented. One example shows how to build a decision tree model to predict response to direct mail. In this example, the target variable is binary, taking on the values response and no response. Other example shows how to build a regression tree model to forecast a continuous (but interval-scaled) target often used in the auto insurance industry, namely loss frequency . Loss frequency can also be modeled as a categorical target variable if it takes on only a few values but in this example it is treated as a continuous target. Successive chapters present examples that clarify the application of the tree models. The examples are solved step by step with SAS Enterprise Miner in order to make easier the understanding of the methodologies used.

This example-driven guide illustrates the application and operation of decision trees in data mining, business intelligence, business analytics, prediction, and knowledge discovery. It explains in detail the use of decision trees as a data mining technique and how this technique complements and supplements other business intelligence applications.

SAS Institute implements data mining in Enterprise Miner software, which will be used in this book focused in Sampling Tecniques, Exploratory Analysis and Association Rules. SAS Institute defines the concept of Data Mining as the process of selecting (Selecting), explore (Exploring), modify (Modifying), modeling (Modeling) and rating (Assessment) large amounts of data with the aim of uncovering unknown patterns which can be used as a comparative advantage with respect to competitors. This process is summarized with the acronym SEMMA which are the initials of the 5 phases which comprise the process of Data Mining according to SAS Institute.

Learn data science concepts with real-world examples in SAS! End-to-End Data Science with SAS: A Hands-On Programming Guide provides clear and practical explanations of the data science environment, machine learning techniques, and the SAS programming knowledge necessary to develop machine learning models in any industry. The book covers concepts including understanding the business need, creating a modeling data set, linear regression, parametric classification models, and non-parametric classification models. Real-world business examples and example code are used to demonstrate each process step-by-step. Although a significant amount of background information and supporting mathematics are presented, the book is not structured as a textbook, but rather it is a user’s guide for the application of data science and machine learning in a business environment. Readers will learn how to think like a data scientist, wrangle messy data, choose a model, and evaluate the model’s effectiveness. New data scientists or professionals who want more experience with SAS will find this book to be an invaluable reference. Take your data science career to the next level by mastering SAS programming for machine learning models.

This tutorial for data analysts new to SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Enterprise Miner provides valuable experience using powerful statistical software to complete the kinds of business analytics common to most industries. This beginnner's guide with clear, illustrated, step-by-step instructions will lead you through examples based on business case studies. You will formulate the business objective, manage the data, and perform analyses that you can use to optimize marketing, risk, and customer relationship management, as well as business processes and human resources. Topics include descriptive analysis, predictive modeling and analytics, customer segmentation, market analysis, share-of-wallet analysis, penetration analysis, and business intelligence. --

SAS Institute implements data mining in Enterprise Miner software, which will be used in this book focused in Cluster Analysis and Decision Trees. SAS Institute defines the concept of Data Mining as the process of selecting (Selecting), explore (Exploring), modify (Modifying), modeling (Modeling) and rating (Assessment) large amounts of data with the aim of uncovering unknown patterns which can be used as a comparative advantage with respect to competitors. This process is summarized with the acronym SEMMA which are the initials of the 5 phases which comprise the process of Data Mining according to SAS Institute."

The most thorough and up-to-date introduction to data mining techniques using SAS Enterprise Miner. The Sample, Explore, Modify, Model, and Assess (SEMMA) methodology of SAS Enterprise Miner is an extremely valuable analytical tool for making critical business and marketing decisions. Until now, there has been no single, authoritative book that explores every node relationship and pattern that is a part of the Enterprise Miner software with regard to SEMMA design and data mining analysis. Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner introduces readers to a wide variety of data mining techniques and explains the purpose of-and reasoning behind-every node that is a part of the Enterprise Miner software. Each chapter begins with a short introduction to the assortment of statistics that is generated from the various nodes in SAS Enterprise Miner v4.3, followed by detailed explanations of configuration settings that are located within each node. Features of the book include: The exploration of node relationships and patterns using data from an assortment of computations, charts, and graphs commonly used in SAS procedures A step-by-step approach to each node discussion, along with an assortment of illustrations that acquaint the reader with the SAS Enterprise Miner working environment Descriptive detail of the powerful Score node and associated SAS code, which showcases the important of managing, editing, executing, and creating custom-designed Score code for the benefit of fair and comprehensive business decision-making Complete coverage of the wide variety of statistical techniques that can be performed using the SEMMA nodes An accompanying Web site that provides downloadable Score code, training code, and data sets for further implementation, manipulation, and interpretation as well as SAS/IML software programming code This book is a well-crafted study guide on the various methods employed to randomly sample, partition, graph, transform, filter, impute, replace, cluster, and process data as well as interactively group and iteratively process data while performing a wide variety of modeling techniques within the process flow of the SAS Enterprise Miner software. Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner is suitable as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of statistics and computer science and is also an invaluable, all-encompassing guide to data mining for novice statisticians and experts alike.

Résumé : A working guide that uses real-world data, this step-by-step resource will show you how to segment customers more intelligently and achieve the one-to-one customer relationship that your business needs. --