From Data to Knowledge: Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Advances in Cluster Analysis Relevant to Marketing Research....Pages 3-19
Representation of Statistical Structures, Classification and Prediction Using Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 20-31
Null Models in Cluster Validation....Pages 32-44
Classifying Space and Analysing the Consequences: Spatial Analysis of Health Data....Pages 45-57
An Ordinal Model for Cluster Analysis — 15 Years in Retrospect....Pages 58-72
An Overview and Recent Developments in Dual Scaling....Pages 73-85
Gibbs Sampling in AR Models with Random Walk Priors....Pages 86-93
Finding the Edge of a Poisson Forest with Inside and Outside Observations: The Discriminant Analysis Point of View....Pages 94-101
Spatial Fibre and Surface Processes — Stereological Estimations and Applications....Pages 102-115
Robustizing Mixture Analysis Using Model Weighting....Pages 116-123
Evaluation of the First Life Table Published in 1888 in Japan....Pages 124-130
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Incomplete Data Matrices and Tests on Randomly Missing Data....Pages 133-140
Valuations and Hierarchizations....Pages 141-150
Recent Developments in Multimode Clustering....Pages 151-158
Gaussian Neural Networks Applied to the Cluster Analysis Problem....Pages 159-166
Graph-Theoretic Models for Testing the Homogeneity of Data....Pages 167-176
Least Squares Multidimensional Scaling with Transformed Distances....Pages 177-185
Alternatives to Configural Frequency Analysis....Pages 186-194
Clustering Methods in Fuzzy Control....Pages 195-202
The Excess Mass Approach and the Analysis of Multi-Modality....Pages 203-211
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Mode Extraction by Multivalue Morphology for Cluster Analysis....Pages 212-221
On the Longest Edge of the Minimal Spanning Tree....Pages 222-230
Detection of Blocks in a Binary Matrix — A Bayesian Approach....Pages 231-239
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Detection of Spatial Discontinuities in Vegetation Data by a Moving Window Algorithm....Pages 243-252
Spatial Clustering of Neurons by Hypergeometric Disjoint Statistics....Pages 253-261
A New Approach of Regionalisation by Classifying Hydrological Quantities....Pages 262-269
The Index-of-Dispersion Test Revisited....Pages 270-277
Comparing Spatio—Temporal Patterns from Defaunization Experiments in Marine Ecology....Pages 278-285
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
A Unifying Approach to Benefit Segmentation and Product Line Design Based on Rank Order Conjoint Data....Pages 289-297
Classification and Representation Using Conjoint Data....Pages 298-307
Overlapping Clustering of Statistical Software Packages for PC....Pages 308-317
Scenario Analysis with BASICS....Pages 318-325
Analysis of Sales Data: A Neural Net Approach....Pages 326-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
On the Definition of Inflection....Pages 337-344
Computer-Aided Analysis of Vocabulary Acquisition....Pages 345-352
Features and Tags....Pages 353-359
Semantically Based Universal Definitions of Grammatical Agreement and Agreement Domain Universals: A Critical Evaluation....Pages 360-366
Towards a Hypermedia, Multilingual, On-Line Resource System for LSP Users/Learners....Pages 367-375
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A New Methodologic Look at Describing the Performance of Diagnostic Classification Procedures in Medicine....Pages 379-386
Xmed—DD: From Document Processing to Systematic Information Storage....Pages 387-394
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Ribosomal RNA Phylogeny Derived from a Correlation Model of Sequence Evolution....Pages 395-403
SALBIDH2 — Modifications of the LBI-Method for Automated Lexicon-Based Indexing of Diagnoses....Pages 404-411
Record Linkage of Anonymous Data by Control Numbers....Pages 412-419
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Processing Partial Information in Decision Support Systems....Pages 423-432
Consistency Conditions for the Classification in LIS/Cl....Pages 433-441
Using Hypertext for Information Retrieval in STEP/EXPRESS Schemata....Pages 442-449
Two Software Tools Supporting Enduser Oriented Information Retrieval in Physics....Pages 450-457
From Verbal Data to Practical Knowledge....Pages 458-466
Back Matter....Pages 467-472