Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences routinely rely on quasi-experimental designs to discover knowledge from large databases. Quasi-experimental designs (QEDs) exploi...
David D. Jensen, Andrew S. Fast, Brian J. Taylor, ...
Mining frequent patterns is a general and important issue in data mining. Complex and unstructured (or semi-structured) datasets have appeared in major data mining applications, i...
Kosuke Hashimoto, Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita, Nobuhi...
Airlines routinely overbook flights based on the expectation that some fraction of booked passengers will not show for each flight. Accurate forecasts of the expected number of no...
Richard D. Lawrence, Se June Hong, Jacques Cherrie...
Knowing the reputations of your own and/or competitors' products is important for marketing and customer relationship management. It is, however, very costly to collect and a...
Skewed distributions appear very often in practice. Unfortunately, the traditional Zipf distribution often fails to model them well. In this paper, we propose a new probability di...