616 Data Mining in Predictive Modeling: Health and Retirement Study Demonstration

Friday, April 1, 2011: 4:00 PM-5:15 PM
Convention Center: Room 29C
AAPAR/Measurement & Evaluation Council
Speakers: Anita N. Lee, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT; and Ngai Kwan, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
This presentation will introduce data mining methods by a demonstration of using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) dataset. An overview of the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM), and predictive modeling techniques will be presented. This presentation is suitable for researchers and graduate students who are interested in exploratory data analysis from large datasets for knowledge discovery.