Acknowledgments

It is always a pleasure to recognize those who have provided selfless support in the completion of a significant work.

Special thanks is due to Rhonda Delmater, with whom I co-authored my first book, Data Mining Explained (Digital Press, 2001), and who proposed the development of this book. Were it not for exigent circumstances, this would have been a joint work.

Special thanks are also due to Theron Shreve (acquisition editor), Marje Pollack (compositor), and Rob Wotherspoon (copy editor) of Derryfield Publishing Services, LLC. What ...

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