The visual data mining process, seen in the first part of this two-part article, revealed patterns in four dimensions between cumulative gas well production and independent variables. "Jump ...

After the first split, the decision tree algorithm examines each of the two subsets of data and finds a predictor variable and a value that gives the most information. The process continues until a ...

Data mining massive geological databases is a leading edge statistical technique useful in oil and gas exploration. Billions of dollars of potential profit can be generated from gas well data analysis ...

A decision tree regression system incorporates a set of if-then rules to predict a single numeric value. Decision tree regression is rarely used by itself because it overfits the training data, and so ...