Classification and Multivariate Analysis for Complex Data Structures

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Principal Component Analysis for Categorical Histogram Data: Some Open Directions of Research....Pages 3-15
Factorial Conjoint Analysis Based Methodologies....Pages 17-27
Ordering and Scaling Objects in Multivariate Data Under Nonlinear Transformations of Variables....Pages 29-40
Statistical Models to Predict Academic Churn Risk....Pages 41-49
The Poisson Processes in Cluster Analysis....Pages 51-62
TWO-CLASS Trees for Non-Parametric Regression Analysis....Pages 63-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Efficient Incorporation of Additional Information to Classification Rules....Pages 75-83
The Choice of the Parameter Values in a Multivariate Model of a Second Order Surface with Heteroscedastic Error....Pages 85-93
Mixed Mode Data Clustering: An Approach Based on Tetrachoric Correlations....Pages 95-103
Optimal Scaling Trees for Three-Way Data....Pages 105-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
A Study on Text Modelling via Dirichlet Compound Multinomial....Pages 115-123
Automatic Multilevel Thresholding Based on a Fuzzy Entropy Measure....Pages 125-133
Some Developments in Forward Search Clustering....Pages 135-143
Spectral Graph Theory Tools for Social Network Comparison....Pages 145-153
Improving the MHIST-p Algorithm for Multivariate Histograms of Continuous Data....Pages 155-163
On Building and Visualizing Proximity Graphs for Large Data Sets with Artificial Ants....Pages 165-172
Including Empirical Prior Information in Test Administration....Pages 173-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Italian Firms’ Geographical Location in High-tech Industries: A Robust Analysis....Pages 185-192
Robust Tests for Pareto Density Estimation....Pages 193-201
Bootstrap and Nonparametric Predictors to Impute Missing Data....Pages 203-210
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
On the Use of Boosting Procedures to Predict the Risk of Default....Pages 211-218
Front Matter....Pages 219-219
Assessing Similarity of Rating Distributions by Kullback-Leibler Divergence....Pages 221-228
Sector Classification in Stock Markets: A Latent Class Approach....Pages 229-236
Partitioning the Geometric Variability in Multivariate Analysis and Contingency Tables....Pages 237-244
One-Dimensional Preference Data Imputation Through Transition Rules....Pages 245-252
About a Type of Quasi Linear Estimating Equation Approach....Pages 253-264
Causal Inference Through Principal Stratification: A Special Type of Latent Class Modelling....Pages 265-270
Scaling the Latent Variable Cultural Capital via Item Response Models and Latent Class Analysis....Pages 271-279
Assessment of Latent Class Detection in PLS Path Modeling: a Simulation Study to Evaluate the Group Quality Index performance....Pages 281-289
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Non-Linear Relationships in SEM with Latent Variables: Some Theoretical Remarks and a Case Study....Pages 293-300
Multidimensional Scaling Versus Multiple Correspondence Analysis When Analyzing Categorization Data....Pages 301-308
Multidimensional Scaling as Visualization Tool of Web Sequence Rules....Pages 309-316
Partial Compliance, Effect of Treatment on the Treated and Instrumental Variables....Pages 317-324
Method of Quantification for Qualitative Variables and their Use in the Structural Equations Models....Pages 325-333
Monitoring Panel Performance Within and Between Sensory Experiments by Multi-Way Analysis....Pages 335-342
A Proposal for Handling Categorical Predictors in PLS Regression Framework....Pages 343-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
On the Use of Archetypes and Interval Coding in Sensory Analysis....Pages 353-361
From Histogram Data to Model Data Analysis....Pages 363-370
Use of Genetic Algorithms When Computing Variance of Interval Data....Pages 371-377
Spatial Visualization of Conceptual Data....Pages 379-388
Front Matter....Pages 389-389
A Test of LBO Firms’ Acquisition Rationale: The French Case....Pages 391-399
Kernel Intensity for Space-Time Point Processes with Application to Seismological Problems....Pages 401-408
Summarizing and Mining Streaming Data via a Functional Data Approach....Pages 409-416
Clustering Complex Time Series Databases....Pages 417-425
Use of a Flexible Weight Matrix in a Local Spatial Statistic....Pages 427-434
Constrained Variable Clustering and the Best Basis Problem in Functional Data Analysis....Pages 435-444
Front Matter....Pages 445-445
Plaid Model for Microarray Data: an Enhancement of the Pruning Step....Pages 447-455
Classification of the Human Papilloma Viruses....Pages 457-464
Toward the Discovery of Itemsets with Significant Variations in Gene Expression Matrices....Pages 465-473