Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data in Behavioral and Social Sciences

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Time-Frequency Filtering for Seismic Waves Clustering....Pages 1-9
Modeling Longitudinal Data by Latent Markov Models with Application to Educational and Psychological Measurement....Pages 11-19
Clustering of Stratified Aggregated Data Using the Aggregate Association Index: Analysis of New Zealand Voter Turnout (1893–1919)....Pages 21-28
Estimating a Rasch Model via Fuzzy Empirical Probability Functions....Pages 29-36
Scale Reliability Evaluation for A-Priori Clustered Data....Pages 37-45
An Evaluation of Performance of Territorial Services Center (TSC) by a Nonparametric Combination Ranking Method....Pages 47-54
A New Index for the Comparison of Different Measurement Scales....Pages 55-63
Asymmetries in Organizational Structures....Pages 65-72
A Generalized Additive Model for Binary Rare Events Data: An Application to Credit Defaults....Pages 73-81
The Meaning of forma in Thomas Aquinas: Hierarchical Clustering from the Index Thomisticus Treebank....Pages 83-91
The Estimation of the Parameters in Multi-Criteria Classification Problem: The Case of the Electre Tri Method....Pages 93-101
Dynamic Clustering of Financial Assets....Pages 103-111
A Comparison of χ 2 Metrics for the Assessment of Relational Similarities in Affiliation Networks....Pages 113-122
Influence Diagnostics for Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models....Pages 123-132
Social Networks as Symbolic Data....Pages 133-141
Statistical Assessment for Risk Prediction of Endoleak Formation After TEVAR Based on Linear Discriminant Analysis....Pages 143-151
Fuzzy c -Means for Web Mining: The Italian Tourist Forum Case....Pages 153-160
On Joint Dimension Reduction and Clustering of Categorical Data....Pages 161-169
A SVM Applied Text Categorization of Academia-Industry Collaborative Research and Development Documents on the Web....Pages 171-181
Dynamic Customer Satisfaction and Measure of Trajectories: A Banking Case....Pages 183-190
The Analysis of Partnership Networks in Social Planning Processes....Pages 191-200
Evaluating the Effect of New Brand by Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 201-209
Statistical Characterization of the Virtual Water Trade Network....Pages 211-219
A Pre-specified Blockmodeling to Analyze Structural Dynamics in Innovation Networks....Pages 221-229
The RCI as a Measure of Monotonic Dependence....Pages 231-242
A Value Added Approach in Upper Secondary Schools of Lombardy by OECD-PISA 2009 Data....Pages 243-251
Algorithmic-Type Imputation Techniques with Different Data Structures: Alternative Approaches in Comparison....Pages 253-261
Changes in Japanese EFL Learners’ Proficiency: An Application of Latent Rank Theory....Pages 263-271
Robustness and Stability Analysis of Factor PD-Clustering on Large Social Data Sets....Pages 273-281
A Box-Plot and Outliers Detection Proposal for Histogram Data: New Tools for Data Stream Analysis....Pages 283-291
Assessing Cooperation in Open Systems: An Empirical Test in Healthcare....Pages 293-301