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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"data mining tools"”.
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Using On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and data mining to estimate emergency room activity in DoD Medical Treatment Facilities in the Tricare Central Region
On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) and data mining can greatly enhance the ability of the Military Medical Treatment Facility (MTF) emergency room (ER) manager to improve ER staffing and utilization. MTF ER managers use statistical data analysis to help manage the efficient operation and use of …
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Contributions to Ensembles of Models for Predictive Toxicology Applications. On the Representation, Comparison and Combination of Models in Ensembles.
The increasing variety of data mining tools offers a large palette of types and representation formats for predictive models. Managing the models then becomes a big challenge, as well as reusing the models and keeping the consistency of model and data repositories. Sustainable access and quality …
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The use of data mining as a decision making tool for municipal performance management in the Western Cape
This thesis proposes the use of data mining tools within an operations research process, allowing the integration of ever increasing amounts of data collected worldwide. It is further argued that the wealth of information delivered by DM tools, with their strong visual emphasis, can be used by …
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A data warehouse architecture for DoD healthcare performance measurements
… System (PMDSS) framework has been designed using Data Warehouse technology. As part of this performance metrics- driven framework, this thesis defines a methodology to design, develop, implement, and apply statistical analysis and data mining tools to a Data Warehouse of healthcare metrics. With …
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Strategic customer relationship marketing and re-intermediation models in the insurance industry
… models? A wide range of statistical models and data mining tools were applied to this research, including vector autoregressive (VAR) modelling, general linear regression, quantile regression, autoregressive, moving average; autoregressive integrated moving average, GARCH, logistic regression; …
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Meta-Learning and the Full Model Selection Problem
When working as a data analyst, one of my daily tasks is to select appropriate tools from a set of existing data analysis techniques in my toolbox, including data preprocessing, outlier detection, feature selection, learning algorithm and evaluation techniques, for a given data project. This indeed …
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The impact of knowledge management processes on organizational resilience: data mining as an instrument of measurement.
… this thesis is to test the feasibility of using data mining (DM) to assess the relationship between and the impact of knowledge management (KM) on organizational resilience (OR). The emphasis currently placed on the value of intangible assets by private sector organizations and the recent …
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Protecting the power grid: strategies against distributed controller compromise
… power system behaviors to enhance the use of data mining tools. Finally, the importance of incorporating power system knowledge into machine learning applications is emphasized with a study that improves power system neural network construction using modal analysis. This dissertation details …
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Response-Based Synchrophasor Controls for Power Systems
… utilizing synchrophasors. It integrates existing tools, controls, and infrastructure with new technology to propose applications and schemes that can be implemented for any utility. This work presents solutions to problems relevant to the industry today, emphasizing utility design and …