Classification, Clustering, and Data Mining Applications

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Thinking Ultrametrically....Pages 3-14
Clustering by Vertex Density in a Graph....Pages 15-23
Clustering by Ant Colony Optimization....Pages 25-32
A Dynamic Cluster Algorithm Based on L r Distances for Quantitative Data....Pages 33-41
The Last Step of a New Divisive Monothetic Clustering Method: the Gluing-Back Criterion....Pages 43-51
Standardizing Variables in K -means Clustering....Pages 53-60
A Self-Organizing Map for Dissimilarity Data....Pages 61-68
Another Version of the Block EM Algorithm....Pages 69-76
Controlling the Level of Separation of Components in Monte Carlo Studies of Latent Class Models....Pages 77-84
Fixing Parameters in the Constrained Hierarchical Classification Method: Application to Digital Image Segmentation....Pages 85-94
New Approaches for Sum-of-Diameters Clustering....Pages 95-103
Spatial Pyramidal Clustering Based on a Tessellation....Pages 105-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Relative Projection Pursuit and its Application....Pages 123-139
Priors for Neural Networks....Pages 141-150
Combining Models in Discrete Discriminant Analysis Through a Committee of Methods....Pages 151-156
Phoneme Discrimination with Functional Multi-Layer Perceptrons....Pages 157-165
PLS Approach for Clusterwise Linear Regression on Functional Data....Pages 167-176
On Classification and Regression Trees for Multiple Responses....Pages 177-184
Subsetting Kernel Regression Models Using Genetic Algorithm and the Information Measure of Complexity....Pages 185-196
Cherry-Picking as a Robustness Tool....Pages 197-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Academic Obsessions and Classification Realities: Ignoring Practicalities in Supervised Classification....Pages 209-232
Modified Biplots for Enhancing Two-Class Discriminant Analysis....Pages 233-240
Weighted Likelihood Estimation of Person Locations in an Unfolding Model for Polytomous Responses....Pages 241-249
Classification of Geospatial Lattice Data and their Graphical Representation....Pages 251-258
Degenerate Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Local Dimension Reduction....Pages 259-268
A Dimension Reduction Technique for Local Linear Regression....Pages 269-276
Reducing the Number of Variables Using Implicative Analysis....Pages 277-285
Optimal Discretization of Quantitative Attributes for Association Rules....Pages 287-296
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Clustering Methods in Symbolic Data Analysis....Pages 299-317
Dependencies in Bivariate Interval-Valued Symbolic Data....Pages 319-324
Clustering of Symbolic Objects Described by Multi-Valued and Modal Variables....Pages 325-332
A Hausdorff Distance Between Hyper-Rectangles for Clustering Interval Data....Pages 333-339
Kolmogorov-Smirnov for Decision Trees on Interval and Histogram Variables....Pages 341-350
Dynamic Cluster Methods for Interval Data Based on Mahalanobis Distances....Pages 351-360
A Symbolic Model-Based Approach for Making Collaborative Group Recommendations....Pages 361-369
Probabilistic Allocation of Aggregated Statistical Units in Classification Trees for Symbolic Class Description....Pages 371-379
Building Small Scale Models of Multi-Entity Databases By Clustering....Pages 381-391
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Phylogenetic Closure Operations and Homoplasy-Free Evolution....Pages 395-416
Consensus of Classification Systems, with Adams’ Results Revisited....Pages 417-428
Symbolic Linear Regression with Taxonomies....Pages 429-437
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Determining Horizontal Gene Transfers in Species Classification: Unique Scenario....Pages 439-446
Active and Passive Learning to Explore a Complex Metabolism Data Set....Pages 447-456
Mathematical and Statistical Modeling of Acute Inflammation....Pages 457-467
Combining Functional MRI Data on Multiple Subjects....Pages 469-476
Classifying the State of Parkinsonism by Using Electronic Force Platform Measures of Balance....Pages 477-483
Subject Filtering for Passive Biometric Monitoring....Pages 485-492
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
Mining Massive Text Data and Developing Tracking Statistics....Pages 495-510
Contributions of Textual Data Analysis to Text Retrieval....Pages 511-520
Automated Resolution of Noisy Bibliographic References....Pages 521-530
Choosing the Right Bigrams for Information Retrieval....Pages 531-540
A Mixture Clustering Model for Pseudo Feedback in Information Retrieval....Pages 541-551
Analysis of Cross-Language Open-Ended Questions Through MFACT....Pages 553-561
Inferring User’s Information Context from User Profiles and Concept Hierarchies....Pages 563-573
Database Selection for Longer Queries....Pages 575-584
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
An Overview of Collapsibility....Pages 587-596
Generalized Factor Analyses for Contingency Tables....Pages 597-606
A PLS Approach to Multiple Table Analysis....Pages 607-620
Simultaneous Row and Column Partitioning in Several Contingency Tables....Pages 621-629
Missing Data and Imputation Methods in Partition of Variables....Pages 631-637
The Treatment of Missing Values and its Effect on Classifier Accuracy....Pages 639-647
Front Matter....Pages 585-585
Clustering with Missing Values: No Imputation Required....Pages 649-658