Data Science : Innovative Developments in Data Analysis and Clustering

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Missing Data Imputation and Its Effect on the Accuracy of Classification....Pages 3-14
On Coupling Robust Estimation with Regularization for High-Dimensional Data....Pages 15-27
Classification Methods in the Research on the Financial Standing of Construction Enterprises After Bankruptcy in Poland....Pages 29-42
On the Identification of Correlated Differential Features for Supervised Classification of High-Dimensional Data....Pages 43-57
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
T-Sharper Images and T-Level Cuts of Fuzzy Partitions....Pages 61-72
Benchmarking for Clustering Methods Based on Real Data: A Statistical View....Pages 73-82
Representable Hierarchical Clustering Methods for Asymmetric Networks....Pages 83-95
A Median-Based Consensus Rule for Distance Exponent Selection in the Framework of Intelligent and Weighted Minkowski Clustering....Pages 97-110
Finding Prototypes Through a Two-Step Fuzzy Approach....Pages 111-121
Clustering Air Monitoring Stations According to Background and Ambient Pollution Using Hidden Markov Models and Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 123-132
Marked Point Processes for Microarray Data Clustering....Pages 133-147
Social Differentiation of Cultural Taste and Practice in Contemporary Japan: Nonhierarchical Asymmetric Cluster Analysis....Pages 149-159
The Classification and Visualization of Twitter Trending Topics Considering Time Series Variation....Pages 161-173
Handling Missing Data in Observational Clinical Studies Concerning Cardiovascular Risk: An Insight into Critical Aspects....Pages 175-188
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
Prediction Error in Distance-Based Generalized Linear Models....Pages 191-204
An Inflated Model to Account for Large Heterogeneity in Ordinal Data....Pages 205-217
Functional Data Analysis for Optimizing Strategies of Cash-Flow Management....Pages 219-230
The Five Factor Model of Personality and Evaluation of Drug Consumption Risk....Pages 231-242
Correlation Analysis for Multivariate Functional Data....Pages 243-258
Multi-Dimensional Scaling of Sparse Block Diagonal Similarity Matrix....Pages 259-272
Front Matter....Pages 189-189
The Application of Classical and Positional TOPSIS Methods to Assessment Financial Self-sufficiency Levels in Local Government Units....Pages 273-284
A Method for Transforming Ordinal Variables....Pages 285-294
Big Data Scaling Through Metric Mapping: Exploiting the Remarkable Simplicity of Very High Dimensional Spaces Using Correspondence Analysis....Pages 295-306
Comparing Partial Least Squares and Partial Possibilistic Regression Path Modeling to Likert-Type Scales: A Simulation Study....Pages 307-320
Cause-Related Marketing: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis on Pinkwashing....Pages 321-332
Predicting the Evolution of a Constrained Network: A Beta Regression Model....Pages 333-342