New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Classification and Clustering: Problems for the Future....Pages 3-24
From classifications to cognitive categorization: the example of the road lexicon....Pages 25-35
A review of graphical methods in Japan — from histogram to dynamic display —....Pages 36-44
New Data and New Tools: A Hypermedia Environment for Navigating Statistical Knowledge in Data Science....Pages 45-54
On the logical necessity and priority of a monothetic conception of class, and on the consequent inadequacy of polythetic accounts of category and categorization....Pages 55-63
Research and Applications of Quantification Methods in East Asian Countries....Pages 64-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Algorithms for a geometrical P.C.A. with the L 1 -norm....Pages 75-84
Comparison of hierarchical classifications....Pages 85-92
On quadripolar Robinson dissimilarity matrices....Pages 93-101
An Ordered Set Approach to Neutral Consensus Functions....Pages 102-110
From Apresjan Hierarchies and Bandelt-Dress Weak hierarchies to Quasi-hierarchies....Pages 111-118
Spanning trees and average linkage clustering....Pages 119-127
Adjustments of tree metrics based on minimum spanning trees....Pages 128-135
The complexity of the median procedure for binary trees....Pages 136-140
A multivariate analysis of a series of variety trials with special reference to classification of varieties....Pages 141-148
Quality control of mixture. Application: The grass....Pages 149-154
Mixture Analysis with Noisy Data....Pages 155-160
Locally optimal tests on spatial clustering....Pages 161-168
Choosing the Number of Clusters, Subset Selection of Variables, and Outlier Detection in the Standard Mixture-Model Cluster Analysis....Pages 169-177
An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set....Pages 178-185
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
The gap test: an optimal method for determining the number of natural classes in cluster analysis....Pages 186-193
Mode detection and valley seeking by binary morphological analysis of connectivity for pattern classification....Pages 194-203
Interactive Class Classification Using Types....Pages 204-211
K-means clustering in a low-dimensional Euclidean space....Pages 212-219
Complexity relaxation of dynamic programming for cluster analysis....Pages 220-227
Partitioning Problems in Cluster Analysis: A Review of Mathematical Programming Approaches....Pages 228-240
Clusters and factors: neural algorithms for a novel representation of huge and highly multidimensional data sets....Pages 241-248
Graphs and structural similarities....Pages 249-256
A generalisation of the diameter criterion for clustering....Pages 257-262
Percolation and multimodal data structuring....Pages 263-268
Classification and Discrimination Techniques Applied to the Early Detection of Business Failure....Pages 269-276
Recursive Partition and Symbolic Data Analysis....Pages 277-284
Interpretation Tools For Generalized Discriminant Analysis....Pages 285-291
Inference about rejected cases in discriminant analysis....Pages 292-299
Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks by Genetic Algorithms....Pages 300-307
On the representation of observational data used for classification and identification of natural objects....Pages 308-315
Alternative strategies and CATANOVA testing in two-stage binary segmentation....Pages 316-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Alignment, Comparison and Consensus of Molecular Sequences....Pages 327-346
An Empirical Evaluation of Consensus Rules for Molecular Sequences....Pages 347-355
A Probabilistic Approach To Identifying Consensus In Molecular Sequences....Pages 356-361
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Applications of Distance Geometry to Molecular Conformation....Pages 362-369
Classification of aligned biological sequences....Pages 370-377
Use of Pyramids in Symbolic Data Analysis....Pages 378-386
Proximity Coefficients between Boolean symbolic objects....Pages 387-394
Conceptual Clustering in Structured Domains: A Theory Guided Approach....Pages 395-404
Automatic Aid to Symbolic Cluster Interpretation....Pages 405-413
Symbolic Clustering Algorithms using Similarity and Dissimilarity Measures....Pages 414-422
Feature Selection for Symbolic Data Classification....Pages 423-429
Towards extraction method of knowledge founded by symbolic objects....Pages 430-437
One Method of Classification based on an Analysis of the Structural Relationship between Independent Variables....Pages 438-444
The Integration of Neural Networks with Symbolic Knowledge Processing....Pages 445-454
Ordering of Fuzzy k -Partitions....Pages 455-462
On the Extension of Probability Theory and Statistics to the Handling of Fuzzy Data....Pages 463-469
Fuzzy Regression....Pages 470-477
Clustering and Aggregation of Fuzzy Preference Data: Agreement vs. Information....Pages 478-481
Rough Classification with Valued Closeness Relation....Pages 482-489
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
Representing proximities by network models....Pages 493-501
An Eigenvector Algorithm to Fit l p -Distance Matrices....Pages 502-509
A non linear approach to Non Symmetrical Data Analysis....Pages 510-517
An Algorithmic Approach to Bilinear Models for Two-Way Contingency Tables....Pages 518-524
Front Matter....Pages 491-491
New Approaches Based on Rankings in Sensory Evaluation....Pages 525-532
Estimating failure times distributions from censored systems arranged in series....Pages 533-538
Calibration Used as a Nonresponse Adjustment....Pages 539-548
Least Squares Smoothers and Additive Decomposition....Pages 549-555
Front Matter....Pages 557-557
High Dimensional Representations and Information Retrieval....Pages 559-568
Experiments of Textual Data Analysis at Electricité de France....Pages 569-576
Conception of a Data Supervisor in the Prospect of Piloting Management Quality of Service and Marketing....Pages 577-583
Discriminant Analysis Using Textual Data....Pages 584-593
Recent Developments in Case Based Reasoning: Improvements of Similarity Measures....Pages 594-601
Contiguity in discriminant factorial analysis for image clustering....Pages 602-609
Exploratory and Confirmatory Discrete Multivariate Analysis in a Probabilistic Approach for Studying the Regional Distribution of Aids in Angola....Pages 610-618
Factor Analysis of Medical Image Sequences (FAMIS): Fundamental principles and applications....Pages 619-627
Multifractal Segmentation of Medical Images....Pages 628-635
The Human Organism — a Place to Thrive for the Immuno-Deficiency Virus....Pages 636-643
Comparability and usefulness of newer and classical data analysis techniques. Application in medical domain classification....Pages 644-652
The Classification of IRAS Point Sources....Pages 653-662
Astronomical classification of the Hipparcos input catalogue....Pages 663-671
Group identification and individual assignation of stars from kinematical and luminosity parameters....Pages 672-679
Specific numerical and symbolic analysis of chronological series in view to classification of long period variable stars....Pages 680-687
Back Matter....Pages 689-693