Please send us by e-mails (1) the errors you found in the book but not yet
listed in the errata, and (2) your suggestion and comments on the revision
of the book. Thanks!
Please send us by e-mails (1) the errors you found in the book but not yet
listed in the errata, and (2) your suggestion and comments on the revision
of the book. Thanks!
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Data Warehouse and OLAP Technology for Data Mining
P. 67, second paragraph, "3. The top tier is a client, which contains ..."
should be "3. The top tier is a front-end client layer, which contains ..."
(pointed out by Jonghyun Lee "jlee17@cs.uiuc.edu", on Aug. 28, 2001)
P. 73, line 6 of paragraph 4, "day < week < month < quarter < year" should
be "day < month < quarter < year" (pointed out by Ming Fan, on Feb. 17, 2001)
P. 81, Example 2.14, line 2, "sum" should not be in sans serif font but
in DMQL keyword font.
(pointed out by Jonghyun Lee "jlee17@cs.uiuc.edu", on Aug. 28, 2001)
P. 82, Example 2.15, line 1, "[time, item, location]" should be "[item,
location, time]" (to be consistent with the concrete examples following it).
(pointed out by Jonghyun Lee "jlee17@cs.uiuc.edu", on Aug. 28, 2001)
P. 82, Example 2.15, line 2, "sum" should not be in sans serif font but
in DMQL keyword font.
(pointed out by Jonghyun Lee "jlee17@cs.uiuc.edu", on Aug. 28, 2001)
Chapter 3. Data Preprocessing
P. 158, Figure 4.4, The pie chart is disproportional, because the sum of
class A¡'s count and class B¡'s count is 2440, which is larger than class
C¡'s count, 2160. Thus the pie of C¡ should be smaller (less than half)
(pointed out by Ming Fan on Feb. 16, 2001)
Chapter 4. Data Mining Primitives, Languages, and System Architectures
Chapter 5. Concept Description: Characterization and Comparison
Chapter 6. Mining Association Rules in Large Databases
P. 231, 4th paragraph, use bold font for the words "Apriori property",
Italicize the remaining setence: "All nonempty subsets of a frequent itemset must also be frequent."
This sentence should be a paragraph on its own.
That is, make the following as the beginning of a new paragraph (paragraph 5):
"The Apriori property is based on the following observation. ..."
P. 241, paragraph 2, Line 3, "I2 I1: 2" should be "I2 I4: 2"
(pointed out by Ming Fan on Feb. 16, 2001)
P. 241, paragraph 3, line 3, "I1 I3:2" should be "I1 I3:4".
(pointed out by Ming Fan on Feb. 16, 2001)
P. 242 under Algorithm Part 1. (a), "frequent items F" should be "frequent
items F (where an item is frequent if its support is no less than min_sup)"
(pointed out by Ming Fan on Feb. 16, 2001)
P. 274, Exercise 6.7 (b) "multilevel assoication rules"
should be changed to "multilevel (but not cross-level) assoication rules"
P. 274, Exercise 6.7 (c) "multilevel assoication rules"
should be changed to "multilevel (but not cross-level) assoication rules"
Chapter 7. Classification and Prediction
P. 285, Figure 7.3, it is better to change all the occurrences of "-" (hiphen)
to "_" (underscore) in the algorithm to make it more readable (pointed out by
Ming Fan on Feb. 16, 2001)
P. 304, Fig 7.8. Change the weight w subscripted by kj (i.e., $w_{kj}$)
to jk (i.e., $w_{jk}$). (suggested by Ming Fan on Feb. 16, 2001)
P. 331, line 3, change "Zytko" to "Zytkow" (by author on Aug. 29, 2001)
Chapter 8. Cluster Analysis
P. 368. parag. 3, starting with "From the density function ...", and
ending with "...for a 2-D data set."
This whole paragraph should be removed (discovered by Steven Y. Lee
(sleep@sfu.ca), CMPT459 student, on Dec. 19, 2000)
Chapter 9. Mining Complex Types of Data
Chapter 10.
Data Mining Applications and Trends in Data Mining
Appendix A. An Introduction to Microsoft's OLE DB for Data Mining
P. 490 line 9,
"OLE DB for DM provides a number of functions that can used ..."
should be "OLE DB for DM provides a number of functions that can be used ..."
(pointed out by Kalman Balogh (KBalogh@matavnet.hu), on March 25, 2001).
Appendix B. An Introduction to DBMiner
Index
P. 534, column 1, line 25, (i.e., before "maxpaterrn") add an index entry:
"lift 261" (suggested by Steven Y. Lee (sleep@sfu.ca), CMPT459 student,
on Dec. 19, 2000)
P. 542. Column 2, line 7 (before Google", add an index entry:
"Gini index, 292" (suggested by Steven Y. Lee (sleep@sfu.ca),
CMPT459 student, on Dec. 19, 2000)