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78 CHAPTER 4. GRAMMAR WITH STYLE NOTEStion, association rules, and Bayesian networks) for categorial data. In bothcases we begin by analyzing pair-wise dependencies between two attributes,before we analyze dependencies between multiple attributes X 1 , ..., X k and thetarget attribute Y . This approach has two benefits. First, we can avoid testingall 2 k dependencies between subsets of {X 1 , ..., X k } and Y , if Y turnsout to be independent from some X i . Second, this analysis can reveal importantinformation about suitable model structures. For example, in somemodelling paradigms, like multiple linear regression and naive Bayes model,the explanatory variables should be independent from each other. Finally,we analyze the suitability of described modelling techniques for educationaldomain.”4.12 PunctuationGoal: to make the text clearer. Unfortunately, the English punctuationrules (especially the use of comma) do not always coincide with the rules ofyour mother tongue.Usually you manage with just two marks: full-stop and comma! The basicrules for other marks are:• Use colon ’:’ only when needed.• Avoid semicolon ’;’ and dash ’–’.• Avoid unnecessary parantheses ’(’...’)’.4.12.1 Full-stopFull-stop ends a full sentence. Do not use comma instead of full-stop toseparate independent clauses which are not logically related.4.12.2 CommaComma is used1. To separate introductory phrases and conjunctions (however, thus, similarly,etc.):”Ideally, all references are entered into a bitex database.””Theorem 1 is important for two reasons. First, it allows us to... Second,it ...”