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Data dredging

Data dredging logo #21000 Data dredging (data fishing, data snooping, equation fitting) is the use of data mining to uncover relationships in data. The process of data mining involves automatically testing huge numbers of hypotheses about a single data set by exhaustively searching for combinations of variables that might show a correlation. Conventional tests of statistic...
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Data dredging

Data dredging logo #24150A term used to characterize analyses that are done on an ad hoc basis, without benefit of prestated hypotheses.
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