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Predicting web users' next access based on log data

, and . Journal of Computational Graphics and Statistics, 12 (1): 143-155 (2003)

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this paper, we derive a predictive model for the pages a user will visit, given some portion of their previous browsing history. We restrict our attention to the path a user follows within a single web site. Our study uses data collected from the home pages of the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Division, a unit of Bell Laboratories. Its URL is cm.bell-labs.com. Suppose that while visiting this site, a user requests pages x 0 ;::: ;x t in order. Our goal is to predict what will...

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