Patent ID: 8239247
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a computer program where execution of the computer program results in operations, the operations comprising: estimating an empirical distribution of a metric for a company; estimating a distribution of the metric for a plurality of companies; determining whether the company is an outlier, based on the empirical distribution of the metric for the company and the distribution of the metric for the plurality of companies; in response to determining that the company is an outlier, estimating a joint probability distribution for the metric in accordance with: where Q i j represents a single metric of region j for company i, b j ε{0,1}, j=1, 2 . . . , m, and n is the number of companies in the plurality of companies and m is number of regions, where j maximizes P(O j =b j /O j =b j ), j 1 ≠j 2 , and O is an indication of an outlier; and generating at least one recommendation of correlated analytics based on conditional probability distributions derived from the estimated joint probability distribution for the metric.