This paper focuses on the discovery of surprising, unexpected patterns, based on a data mining method that consists of detecting instances of Simpson's paradox. By its very n...
A drawback of most traditional data mining methods is that they do not leverage prior knowledge of users. In many business settings, managers and analysts have significant intuiti...
Several pattern discovery methods proposed in the data mining literature have the drawbacks that they discover too many obvious or irrelevant patterns and that they do not leverag...