New developments in classification and data analysis :
General Material Designation
[Book]
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proceedings of the meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, University of Bologna, September 22-24, 2003
First Statement of Responsibility
Maurizio Vichi [and others], editors.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Berlin
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Springer
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2005
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(x, 369 pages) : 92 figure, 66 table
SERIES
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Studies in classification, data analysis, and knowledge organization.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Multi-Class Budget Exploratory Trees; Methods to Compare Nonparametric Classifiers and to Select the Predictors; Variable Selection in Cell Classification Problems: A Strategy Based on Independent Component Analysis; Simplifying Classification Trees Through Consensus Methods; Selecting the Training Set in Classification Problems with Rare Events; A Classification and Discrimination Integrated Strategy Conducted on Symbolic Data for Missing Data Treatment in Questionnaire Survey; A Collinearity Based Hierarchical Method to Identify Clusters of Variables.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The volume presents new developments in data analysis and classification. Particular attention is devoted to clustering, discrimination, data analysis and statistics, as well as applications in biology, finance and social sciences. The reader will find theory and algorithms on recent technical and methodological developments and many application papers showing the empirical usefulness of the newly developed solutions.