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"