Regression Analysis and Randomized Experiments

It has been a while since my last blog entry. Frankly, I missed blogging.
Needless to say, only regular blogs with interesting content get read. So, I will have to become more disciplined.
In this blog, over the past two months, I have made reference to two very useful and interesting books, Tom Davenport's "Competing on Analytics" and Ian Ayre's "Supercrunching". Prof. Davenport's book was first out of the gate in early March 2007 while Professor Ayre's book came out in August. In a recent entry his own blog, Professor Davenport has brought out some good points about Supercrunching. Two analytical techniques that are quite useful and get some space in Supercrunching are Regression Analysis and Randomized Experiments. And of course, the main take-away, for me, are the many good examples of data mining that have worked.