References for Business Research Methods: Chapter 8
Statistics Netherlands (CBS), the official statistical bureau of the Dutch government offers free
online access to information at www.cbs.nl/statline.
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Advertisement in Business Week, 28 June 1999, p. 3.
‘Lots of online brokers say they are number one. Here’s what some of the industry sources have to
say’, Schwab.com, 1 January 2001 (http://www.schwab.com/SchwabNOW/SNLibrary/SNLib132/
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R. Srikant and R. Agrawal, ‘Mining sequential patterns: generalizations and performance
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Paris, France, March 1996.
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B. DePompe, There’s Gold in Databases, CMP Publications, 8 January 1996 (website:
http://techweb.cmp.com/iwk).
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Table adapted from DIG White Paper 95/01, ‘An overview of data mining at Dun & Bradstreet’,
Data Intelligence Group, Pilot Software, Cambridge, MA, September 1995.
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DePompe, CMP Publications (website: http://techweb.cmp.com/iwk).
‘Data mining: plumbing the depths of corporate databases’, ComputerWorld Customer Publication,
insert in ComputerWorld, 12 April 1997, pp. 6, 18.
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The section on data-mining techniques was adapted from Bruce Moxon, ‘Defining data mining’,
DBMS Data Warehouse Supplement, DBMS Online (August 1996), http://www.dbmsmag.com;
Mark Kantrowitz, Erik Horstkotte and Cliff Joslyn, ‘Fuzzy logic FAQ’, http://comp.ai.fuzzy
newsgroup; DIG White Paper 95/01 and FAQ on data-mining (website: http://www.rdnuggets.
com/faq/).
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Information Discovery Inc. (website: http://www.idi.com).
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SAS Institute Inc., ‘Data mining’ (website: http://www.sas.com).
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Exhibit 8.5 was adapted from SAS Institute Inc., ‘Data mining’ (website: http://www.sas.com).