The process of knowledge discovery and data mining is best characterized as:
a. machine learning, use of statistical methods, large amounts of data.
b. a process wherein patients are selected for clinical trials.
c. "fishing" for information in data.
d. cleaning data for further analysis using other methods.
ANS: A
Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDDM) is a process in which machine learning and statistical methods are applied to analyze large amounts of data.
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