“…Data mining techniques have found applications in a range of domains, including the use of credit cards (Kumar & Ravi, 2008; Sun & Vasarhelyi, 2018), customer relationship management (Rygielski et al, 2002), bankruptcy prediction (Paramjeet & Ravi, 2011; Peat & Jones, 2012; Pendharkar, 2011; Ramu & Ravi, 2009), credit risk assessment (Lahmiri, 2016), accounting and finance problems (Coakley & Brown, 2000), financial fraud detection (Fanning & Cogger, 1998), financial risk forecasting (Sun, 2012), bacteriology for bacterial identification (Rahman et al, 2011), metal inert gas welding process (Lahoti & Pratihar, 2017), detecting blog spam (Yang & Kwok, 2017), fault diagnosis and condition monitoring (Muralidharan & Sugumaran, 2016; Saimurugan & Ramachandran, 2014), software fault prediction (Erturk & Sezer, 2016; Singhal et al, 2019), machining parameter optimization (Ahmad et al, 2014), demand forecasting (Tigas et al, 2013), emotional speech analysis (Tuckova & Sramka, 2012), and software engineering (Taylor et al, 2010). Data mining techniques have rapidly found applications in diverse fields, including stock markets.…”