Between Data Science and Applied Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., University of Mannheim, July 22–24, 2002

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Robust Classification Through the Forward Search....Pages 3-12
Fitting and Smoothing Properties of Length Constrained Smoothers Applied to Time Series....Pages 13-21
Interaction Terms in Non-linear PLS via Additive Spline Transformation....Pages 22-29
Discriminant Analysis With Categorical Variables: A Biplot Based Approach....Pages 30-38
Efficient Density Clustering Using Basin Spanning Trees....Pages 39-48
Some Issues on Clustering of Functional Data....Pages 49-56
Scalable Clustering of High Dimensional Data....Pages 57-64
Methods to Combine Classification Trees....Pages 65-73
Core-Based Clustering Techniques....Pages 74-82
Combining Regression Trees and Radial Basis Function Networks in Longitudinal Data Modelling....Pages 83-91
Implementing a new Method for Discriminant Analysis When Group Covariance Matrices are Nearly Singular....Pages 92-99
Two Approaches for Discriminant Partial Least Squares....Pages 100-108
Improving the Classification Performance of a Discriminant Rule by Dealing With Data Cases Having a Substantial Influence on Variable Selection....Pages 109-117
Classification and Clustering of Vocal Performances....Pages 118-126
Cluster- and Discriminant Analysis With Both Metric and Categorial Data....Pages 127-130
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Multivariate Mixture Models Estimation: A Genetic Algorithm Approach....Pages 133-142
Two-Way Clustering for Contingency Tables: Maximizing a Dependence Measure....Pages 143-154
Localised Mixtures of Experts for Mixture of Regressions....Pages 155-164
A Bayesian Approach for the Estimation of the Covariance Structure of Separable Spatio-Temporal Stochastic Processes....Pages 165-172
An Algorithm for the HICLAS-R Model....Pages 173-181
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Some Applications of Time-Varying Coefficient Models to Count Data....Pages 182-190
On Ziggurats and Dendrograms....Pages 191-200
A Dimensionality Reduction Method Based on Simple Linear Regressions....Pages 201-208
Evolutionary Strategies to Avoid Local Minima in Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 209-217
Principal Component Analysis of Boolean Symbolic Objects....Pages 218-225
Multivariate Analysis for Variables of Arbitrary Information Level....Pages 226-234
How Wrong Models Become Useful — and Correct Models Become Dangerous....Pages 235-243
Visualizing Symbolic Data by Closed Shapes....Pages 244-251
LBGU-EM Algorithm for Mixture Density Estimation....Pages 252-260
Change-Points in Bernoulli Trials With Dependence....Pages 261-269
Two-Mode Clustering Methods: Compare and Contrast....Pages 270-278
Sensitivity of Graphical Modeling Against Contamination....Pages 279-287
New Graphical Symbolic Objects Representations in Parallel Coordinates....Pages 288-295
A Hierarchical Classes Approach to Discriminant Analysis....Pages 296-304
Prediction Optimal Data Analysis by Means of Stochastic Search....Pages 305-312
System Error Variance Tuning in State-Space Models....Pages 313-320
Corrado Gini and Multivariate Statistical Analysis: The (so far) Missing Link....Pages 321-328
On Correspondence Analysis of Incomplete Orderings....Pages 329-336
Some Statistical Issues in Microarray Data Analysis....Pages 337-347
Background of the Variability in Past Human Populations: Selected Methodological Issues....Pages 348-357
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Spatial Prediction With Space-Time Models....Pages 358-366
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Neural Budget Networks of Sensorial Data....Pages 369-377
Evolutionary Model Selection in Bayesian Neural Networks....Pages 378-386
Extreme Datamining....Pages 387-394
Information Filtering Based on Modal Symbolic Objects....Pages 395-404
Analyzing Learner Behavior and Performance....Pages 405-411
An Integration Strategy for Distributed Recommender Services in Legacy Library Systems....Pages 412-420
Comparing Simple Association-Rules and Repeat-Buying Based Recommender Systems in a B2B Environment....Pages 421-429
Students’ Preferences Related to Web Based E-Learning: Results of a Survey....Pages 430-437
MURBANDY: The (so far) Missing Link: User-Friendly Retrieval and Visualization of Geographic Information....Pages 438-446
ASCAID: Using an Asymmetric Correlation Measure for Automatic Interaction Detection....Pages 447-455
Discriminative Clustering: Vector Quantization in Learning Metrics....Pages 456-463
Neural Network Hybrid Learning: Genetic Algorithms & Levenberg-Marquardt....Pages 464-472
Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Associations in Information Retrieval....Pages 473-482
Finding the Most Useful Clusters: Clustering and the Usefulness Metric....Pages 483-491
Internet Thesaurus — Extracting Relevant Terms from WWW Pages using Weighted Threshold Function over a Cross-Reference Matrix....Pages 492-500
Reflections on a Supervised Approach to Independent Component Analysis....Pages 501-509
Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search for Optimization of Neural Networks....Pages 510-518
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Decentralizing Risk Management in the Case of Quadratic Hedging....Pages 521-529
Multimedia Stimulus Presentation Methods for Conjoint Studies in Marketing Research....Pages 530-537
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Forecasting the Customer Development of a Publishing Company with Decision Trees....Pages 538-545
Estimation of Default Probabilities in a Single-Factor Model....Pages 546-554
Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Default Probabilities....Pages 555-560
Model-Based Clustering With Hidden Markov Models and its Application to Financial Time-Series Data....Pages 561-569
Classification of Multivariate Data With Missing Values Using Expected Discriminant Scores....Pages 570-577
Assessment of the Polish Manufacturing Sector Attractiveness: An End-User Approach....Pages 578-586
Developing a Layout of a Supermarket Through Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling and Cluster Analysis of Purchase Data....Pages 587-594
Market Segmentation Method From the Bayesian Viewpoint....Pages 595-603
Support Vector Machines for Credit Scoring: Comparing to and Combining With Some Traditional Classification Methods....Pages 604-612
Front Matter....Pages 613-613
Classification of Amino-Acid Sequences Using State-Space Models....Pages 615-623
Quantitative Study of Images in Archaeology: I. Textual Coding....Pages 624-632
Quantitative Study of Images in Archaeology: II. Symbolic Coding....Pages 633-642
Power Functions in Multiple Sampling Plans Using DNA Computation....Pages 643-651
Methodological Issues in the Baffling Relationship Between Hepatitis C Virus and Non Hodgkin’s Lymphomas....Pages 652-661
Class Discovery in Gene Expression Data: Characterizing Splits by Support Vector Machines....Pages 662-669
Efficient Clustering Methods for Tumor Classification With Microarrays....Pages 670-679
A Method to Classify Microarray Data....Pages 680-688
Back Matter....Pages 689-693