Part II

Mining Functions

In Part II, you will learn about the mining functions supported by Oracle Data Mining. Mining functions represent a class of mining problems that can be solved using specific data mining techniques. An algorithm appropriate to the mining function must be used to create a mining model. Oracle Data Mining algorithms are described in Part III.

Note on Terminology:

The term mining function has no relationship to a SQL language function.

Oracle Data Mining supports a family of SQL language functions that serve as operators for applying mining models in SQL. See "Scoring and Deployment" in Oracle Data Mining Application Developer's Guide.

Part II contains the following chapters:

Chapter 4, "Regression"
Chapter 5, "Classification"
Chapter 6, "Anomaly Detection"
Chapter 7, "Clustering"
Chapter 8, "Association Rules"
Chapter 9, "Feature Selection and Extraction"