Experts in a communications company believe that cell phone usage on weekends is determined by the age of the customer and the number of months the customer has the cell phone account.Which of the following technique could be used to analyze the data?
A)Regression analysis
B)Supervised data -mining
C)Neural networks
D)Cluster analysis
E)Unsupervised data -mining

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Regression analysis is used to study the relationship between variables, such as the age of the customer and the number of months the customer has the cell phone account, and the outcome, which in this case is cell phone usage on weekends. It would be appropriate to use regression analysis to determine how these variables influence cell phone usage. Supervised data-mining, neural networks, and cluster analysis are not as appropriate for studying relationships between variables. Unsupervised data-mining may be useful in exploratory analysis but would not be the best choice for predicting cell phone usage.

Experts in a Communications Company Believe That Cell Phone Usage