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Dangers in Data-mining

Data-mining methods are aimed to derive hypothese from the data (section 1.1). Therefore data-mining results are also only hypothese and need to be taken with care as there are several dangers associated with ``misinterpreting'' a hypothese.

The general problem of causality, the relationship of wholes and parts, and the limiting factor of a training-set are three of these dangers that will be discussed in the following sections.



 

Thomas Prang
1998-06-07