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This package includes routines for predictive analytics, an automated form of data mining. With predictive analytics, you do not need to be aware of model building or scoring. All mining activities are handled internally by the predictive analytics procedure.
Predictive analytics routines prepare the data, build a model, score the model, and return the results of model scoring. Before exiting, they delete the model and supporting objects.
Oracle predictive analytics supports these routines:
EXPLAIN
ranks attributes in order of influence in explaining a target column.
PREDICT
predicts the value of a target column based on values in the input data.
PROFILE generates rules that describe the cases from the input data.
You can use Snippets to create PL/SQL programs using the Predictive Analytics routines. The Predictive Analytics group of snippets provide examples of using these routines.