A New Strategy of Model Building in PROC LOGISTIC With Automatic Variable Selection, Validation, Shrinkage and Model Averaging [ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2008- This paper is a further development of the work wherein the researchers proposed an approach to model building for prediction based on the combination of stepwise logistic regression, information criteria, and the best subset selection. The approach inherited some strong features of the three components mentioned, in particular it helped to avoid the agonizing process of choosing the ""Right"" critical p-value in stepwise regression. At the same time automatic selection procedures are often criticized severely ....

Emerging Security Threats Demand Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring [ Source: FireScope ]
January 2008- A multi-billion dollar cyber crime industry is changing the security landscape. Targeted external and internal attacks that steal intellectual property, customer data, and money are on the rise - impacting corporations’ bottom lines and their reputations with customers. Malicious code is entering the environment more rapidly than patches can be deployed and through avenues that network perimeter monitoring can’t detect. Today’s targeted security threats evade detection by single-point security solutions and traditional network monitoring. This ....

Considering Third-Generation Discovery: Two Approaches For Evaluating eDiscovery Offerings [ Source: Orange Legal Technologies ]
December 2008- With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Even though more and more vendors are providing pricing comparison tools that can help in considering their offerings, there continues to be a need for comparison frameworks to help electronic discovery professionals systematically evaluate offerings beyond pricing and through the lens of additional factors to include capability, delivery ....

Three Blind Men and an Elephant- The Power of Dashboards [ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-

Stephen Few, Principal of Perceptual Edge, reveals how dashboards make it easy to shift from one perspective to another while exploring and analyzing data, and pursuing every question that arises during the process.

Business people struggle every day to make sense of data, stumbling blindly, touching only small parts of the information, and coming away with a narrowed comprehension.

In this paper you'll learn how dashboards increase data comprehension through:
• Greater ....

Making It Easy to Report on Your Application’s Data [ Source: Actuate ]
October 2008- Providers of software applications and solutions (OEMs) are struggling to accelerate time-to-market while simultaneously lowering costs. Their customers now expect robust reporting, rich information access and seamless integration in every application. To deliver these requirements, OEMs need to pull application data in to graphical, intuitive reports. But time and money spent on delivering this functionality is time and money not spent on core features, bogging down development and cutting ....