Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences

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Research Letters welcomes papers from staff and graduate students at Massey University in the areas of: Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Statistics and the Physical and Engineering Sciences. Research letters is a preprint series that accepts articles of completed research work, technical reports, or preliminary results from ongoing research. After editing, articles are published online and can be referenced, or handed out at conferences. Copyright remains with the authors and the articles can be used as preprints to academic journal publications or handed out at conferences. Editors Dr Elena Calude Dr Napoleon Reyes The guidelines for writing a manuscript can be accessed here.

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    Data mining in the survey setting: why do children go off the rails?
    (Massey University, 2002) Scheffer, Judi
    Data Mining is relatively new in the field of statistics, although widely used elsewhere. Is it a good idea to discard the model-based methods in favour of Data Driven methods? Data driven methods produce a high degree of accuracy, but very little interpretability. Model based methods are interpretable, but lack accuracy. Data mining techniques are commonly used where the data collection has been automated. I will show these methods are also useful in the large survey setting.