Part II

Mining Functions

Part II provides basic conceptual information about the mining functions supported by Oracle Data Mining. Mining functions represent a class of mining problems that can be solved using data mining algorithms. Oracle Data Mining algorithms are described in Part III.

Part II contains these chapters:

Chapter 4, "Regression"
Chapter 5, "Classification"
Chapter 6, "Anomaly Detection"
Chapter 7, "Clustering"
Chapter 8, "Association"
Chapter 9, "Feature Selection and Extraction"

Note on Terminology:

The term mining function has no relationship to a SQL language function.

See Oracle Database SQL Language Reference for information about the Data Mining SQL language functions.