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Data Files from Data Mining Techniques Class

NYtowns as a csv file containing 152 variables describing 1,006 towns in the state of New York. (In New York, a  "town" is a subdivision of a county which may or may not correspond to an actual incorporated village or city.)

NYtowns as a SAS dataset.

Definitions for the fields in the NYtowns data.

Catalog responders as a csv file.

Catalog responders as a SAS dataset.

Definitions for fields in the catalog data as a csv file.

Subscribers of a wireless phone company for use in survival analysis exercises as a csv file.

Subscribers of a wireless phone company for use in survival analysis exercises as a SAS dataset.

Data Files from Applying Survival Analysis for Business Time-to-Event Problems class

Mobile SAS dataset--subscribers of a wireless phone company for use in the Applying Survival Analysis for Business Time-to-Event Problems class.

Profile SAS dataset--registered visitors to the SAS web site.

Log data from the SAS web site as a SAS dataset.

Project file for SAS Enterprise Guide Version 4.

Papers, Presentations, and Articles

Presentation on survival analysis in data mining presented by Gordon Linoff at SUGI29.

Survival Data Mining - Article written by Gordon Linoff for Intelligent Enterprise Vol. 7 Number 12, August 2004.

Survival Data Mining- Technical white paper by Will Potts.

Additional magazine articles and webcasts are available on the links page.