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Applied Predictive Modeling covers the overall predictive modeling process, beginning with the crucial steps of data preprocessing, data splitting and foundations of model tuning. The text then provides intuitive explanations of numerous common and modern regression and classification techniques, always with an emphasis on illustrating and solving real data problems. The text illustrates all parts of the modeling process through many hands-on, real-life examples, and every chapter contains extensive R code for each step of the process.  This multi-purpose text can be used as an introduction to predictive models and the overall modeling process, a practitioner’s reference handbook, or as a text for advanced undergraduate or graduate level predictive modeling courses.  To that end, each chapter contains problem sets to help solidify the covered concepts and uses data available in the book’s R package. This text is intended for a broad audience as both an introduction to predictive models as well as a guide to applying them. Non-mathematical readers will appreciate the intuitive explanations of the techniques while an emphasis on problem-solving with real data across a wide variety of applications will aid practitioners who wish to extend their expertise. Readers should have knowledge of basic statistical ideas, such as correlation and linear regression analysis. While the text is biased against complex equations, a mathematical background is needed for advanced topics.

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'Applied Predictive Modeling' aims to expose many of these techniques in a very readable and self-contained book. This is a very applied and hands-on book. It guides the reader through many examples that serve to illustrate main points, and it raises possible issues and considerations that are oftentimes overlooked or not sufficiently reflected upon. ... Highly recommended. (Bojan Tunguz, tunguzreview.com, June, 2015) The book under review is aimed at providing both an introduction and a practical guide of predictive modelling. ... this book is strongly recommended as a practical guide for non-mathematical readers with basic statistical knowledge. All concepts are presented within a strong practical context and are illustrated using the statistical software package R. In addition, supportive exercises are provided in each chapter. (Iris Burkholder, zbMATH 1306.62014, 2015)

This strong, technical, hands-on treatment clearly spells out the concepts, and illustrates its themes tangibly with the language R, the most popular open source analytics solution. Eric Siegel, Ph.D. Founder, Predictive Analytics World, Author, Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

From the book reviews: The book under review is aimed at providing both an introduction and a practical guide of predictive modelling. ... this book is strongly recommended as a practical guide for non-mathematical readers with basic statistical knowledge. All concepts are presented within a strong practical context and are illustrated using the statistical software package R. In addition, supportive exercises are provided in each chapter. (Iris Burkholder, zbMATH 1306.62014, 2015)

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Dr. Kuhn is a Director of Non-Clinical Statistics at Pfizer Global R&D in Groton Connecticut. He has been applying predictive models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 15 years and is the author of a number of R packages.  Dr. Johnson has more than a decade of statistical consulting and predictive modeling experience in pharmaceutical research and development.  He is a co-founder of Arbor Analytics, a firm specializing in predictive modeling and is a former Director of Statistics at Pfizer Global R&D.  His scholarly work centers on the application and development of statistical methodology and learning algorithms.

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