Advances in Data Science and Classification: Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS-98) Università “La Sapienza”, Rome, 21–24 July, 1998

Content: 
Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
K-midranges clustering....Pages 3-14
A New Method for Detecting Influential Observations in Nonhierarchical Cluster Analysis....Pages 15-20
Non-probabilistic Classification....Pages 21-28
An investigation of nine procedures for detecting the structure in a data set....Pages 29-36
Clustering and Outlier Identification: Fixed Point Cluster Analysis....Pages 37-42
Clustering Large Datasets of Mixed Units....Pages 43-48
A Critical Approach to Non-Parametric Classification of Compositional Data....Pages 49-56
Clustering Based on Wavelet Transform: Applications to Point Pattern Clustering and to High-Dimensional Data Analysis....Pages 57-64
Beyond Simpson’s Paradox: One Problem in Data Science....Pages 65-72
For Consensus (With Branch Lengths)....Pages 73-80
Consensus of classifications: the case of trees....Pages 81-90
The Information Content of Consensus Trees....Pages 91-98
Compatible and Complementary Fuzzy Partitions....Pages 99-104
Two Methods of Fuzzy c-Means and Classification Functions....Pages 105-110
Dynamic Determination of Mixing Parameters in Fuzzy Clustering....Pages 111-116
A Dynamic Additive Fuzzy Clustering Model....Pages 117-124
Application of fuzzy mathematical morphology for pattern classification....Pages 125-130
Statistical Conditions for a Linear Complexity for an Algorithm of Hierarchical Classification Under Constraint of Contiguity....Pages 131-136
Constrained Clustering Problems....Pages 137-144
A constrained clusterwise procedure for segmentation....Pages 145-151
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Maximal predictive clustering with order constraint: a linear and optimal algorithm....Pages 153-160
A linear programming based heuristic for a hard clustering problem on trees....Pages 161-170
Two Principal Points of Symmetric Distributions....Pages 171-176
Pertinence for a Classification....Pages 177-184
Global stochastic optimization techniques applied to partitioning....Pages 185-190
MCMC Inference for Model-based Cluster analysis....Pages 191-196
On the Asymptotic Normality of a Resubstitution Error Estimate....Pages 197-204
Stochastic Methods for Generative Systems Analysis....Pages 205-210
Compensatory Rules for Optimal Classification with Mastery Scores....Pages 211-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
About the Automatic Detection of Training Sets for Multispectral Images Classification....Pages 221-226
A “Leaps and Bounds” Algorithm for Variable Selection in Two-Group Discriminant Analysis....Pages 227-232
Canonical Discriminant Analysis of Multinomial Samples with Applications to Textual Data....Pages 233-237
How to extract predictive binary attributes from a categorical one....Pages 239-244
A Density Distance Based Approach to Projection Pursuit Discriminant Analysis....Pages 245-250
Two Group Linear Discrimination Based on Transvariation Measures....Pages 251-256
A new geometrical hypothesis for clustering and discriminant analysis....Pages 257-264
Clustering and Neural Networks....Pages 265-277
Application of Self-Organizing Maps to Outlier Identification and Estimation of Missing Data....Pages 279-286
Neuro-Fuzzy Classification....Pages 287-294
Computational Enhancements in Tree-Growing Methods....Pages 295-302
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
A New Way to Build Oblique Decision Trees Using Linear Programming....Pages 303-309
Classification and Regression Trees Software and New Developments....Pages 311-318
STABLE: a visual environment for the study of multivariate data....Pages 319-322
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
Some recent Developments in Factor Analysis and the Search for proper Communalities....Pages 325-334
Bayesian Factor Analysis Model and Choosing the Number of Factors Using a New Informational Complexity Criterion....Pages 335-342
Nonlinear Biplots for Multivariate Normal Grouped Populations....Pages 343-348
Discretization as a tool in cluster analysis....Pages 349-354
A Robust Biplot Representation of Two-way Tables....Pages 355-361
Graphical factor analysis models: specification and model comparison....Pages 363-368
Graphical Analysis of Fully Ranked Data....Pages 369-374
Improper Solutions in Exploratory Factor Analysis: Causes and Treatments....Pages 375-382
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Symbolic Clustering Of Probabilistic Data....Pages 385-390
Statistical proximity functions of Boolean symbolic objects based on histograms....Pages 391-396
Vertices Principal Components Analysis With an Improved Factorial Representation....Pages 397-402
On the Complexity of Computation with Symbolic Objects using Domain Knowledge....Pages 403-408
Symbolic Data Analysis: a Mathematical Framework and Tool for Data Mining....Pages 409-416
Symbolic Kernel Discriminant Analysis....Pages 417-423
Decision Trees and Uncertain Inference....Pages 425-431
Interpretation and Reduction of Galois Lattices of Complex Data....Pages 433-440
Proximity function for clustering of software objects....Pages 441-448
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Textual data analysis for open-questions in repeated surveys....Pages 449-456
Three-way textual data analysis....Pages 457-464
Classification Problems in Text Analysis and Information Retrieval....Pages 465-472
Text Mining - Knowledge extraction from unstructured textual data....Pages 473-480
Front Matter....Pages 481-481
A general formulation of multidimensional unfolding models involving the latitude of acceptance....Pages 483-488
The Data Theory Scaling System....Pages 489-496
A Note on Identification and Similarity Models....Pages 497-502
Generalized Distance Measures for Asymmetric Multivariate Distributions....Pages 503-508
Obtaining Disparities as Slopes of Greatest Minorant Convex....Pages 509-516
Non-parametric regression models for the conjoint analysis of qualitative and quantitative data....Pages 517-524
Local multivariate analysis....Pages 525-530
Non-parametric Regression and Non-linear Data Analysis: an overview....Pages 531-538
Simple and Multiple Regression Splines with Bounded Optimal Knots....Pages 539-546
Interpretation of a Cross-Classification: a New Method and an Application....Pages 547-554
Bidimensional Kalman filter and Iterated Conditional Modes....Pages 555-560
An Iterative Reweighting Procedure to Robustify Projection Pursuit Regression....Pages 561-566
Statistical Multivariate Techniques for the Stock Location Assignment Problem....Pages 567-572
A Bayesian Approach to the Analysis of Spatial Time Series....Pages 573-578
Dissimilarities Between Trajectories of a Three-Way Longitudinal Data Set....Pages 579-584
Front Matter....Pages 585-592
An Overview of Three-way Analysis and Some Recent Developments....Pages 481-481
Studying the Diffusion of Three-Mode Analysis in Chemistry: Design Considerations....Pages 593-602
Selection of Classification Models Using Data Envelopment Analysis....Pages 603-611
Tests for the Rank of Matrices of Hilbert-Schmidt Products....Pages 613-618
Application of Three-Way Data Clustering to Analysis of Lymphocyte Subset Numbers in Japanese Hemophiliacs Infected with HIV-1....Pages 619-625
Front Matter....Pages 627-632
On an Error Detecting Algorithm on Textual Data Files....Pages 633-633
Hierarchy Techniques of Multidimensional Data Analysis (MDA) in Social Medicine Research....Pages 635-640
Classification and Decision Making in Forensic Sciences: the Speaker Identification Problem....Pages 641-646
Ordinal Variables in the Segmentation of Advertisement Receivers....Pages 647-654
Some Experimental Trial of Electronic Surveys on the Internet Environments....Pages 655-662
Back Matter....Pages 663-668
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