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Allison WA (Wiley-SAS), 2001 Allison's logistic regression book + SAS logistic regression + Ordinal Regression + Must have book for the SAS user + Show me how             Data Mining Techniques: For Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management28 reviews Michael J. A. Berry, Gordon S. Linoff *Wiley Computer Publishing, 2004 Excellent introduction + Excellent book for Data Mining + Very Interesting book + A must-have book for your technical library             Classification and Regression Trees6 reviews Leo Breiman, Jerome Friedman, ... Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1984 the book that made tree classification algorithms work better through the concept of pruning + The Original CART Resource + the book that made tree classification rigorous + A must have for all serious decision trees researchers + Instructive and Powerful