E-raamat: Classification and Data Analysis: Theory and Application Proceedings of the Biannual Meeting of the Classification Group of Societa Italiana di Statistica (SIS) Pescara, July 3-4, 1997

I: Classification.- Methodologies in Classification.- Measuring the
influence of individual observations and variables in cluster analysis.-
Consensus classification for a set of multiple time series.- A bootstrap
method for adaptive cluster sampling.- Forecasting a classification.- Fuzzy
Clustering and Fuzzy Methods.- Neural networks as a fuzzy semantic network of
events.- Hierarchical fuzzy clustering: an example of spatio-temporal
analysis.- A new algorithm for semi-fuzzy clustering.- Fuzzy classification
and hyperstructures: an application to evaluation of urban projects.-
Variable selection in fuzzy clustering.- II : Other Approaches for
Classification.- Discrimination and Classification.- Discriminant analysis
using markovian automodels.- Discretization of continuous-valued data in
symbolic classification learning.- Logistic discrimination by
Kullback-Leibler type distance measures.- An empirical discrimination
algorithm based on projection pursuit density estimation.- Regression Tree
and Neural Networks.- Notes on methods for improving unstable classifiers.-
Selection of cut points in generalized additive models.- Latent budget trees
for multiple classification.- III: Multivariate and Multidimensional Data
Analysis.- Proximity Analysis and Multidimensional Scaling.- Methods for
asymmetric three-way scaling.- Comparison of Euclidean approximations of
non-Euclidean distances.- Analysing dissimilarities through multigraphs.-
Professional positioning based on dominant eigenvalue scores (DES),
dimensional scaling (DS) and multidimensional scaling (MDS) synthesis of
binary evaluations matrix of experts.- Non-metric full-multidimensional
scaling.- Factorial Methods.- Dynamic factor analysis.- A non symmetrical
generalised co-structure analysis for inspecting quality control data.-
Principal surfaces constrained analysis.- Generalised canonical analysis on
symbolic objects.- Analysis of qualitative variables in structural models
with unique solutions.- Spatial Analysis.- Exploring multivariate spatial
data: line transect data.- On the assessment of geographical survey units
using constrained classification.- Kalman filter applied to non-causal models
for spatial data.- Multiway Data Analysis.- A paradigmatic path for
statistical content analysis using an integrated package of textual data
treatment.- The analysis of auxological data by means of nonlinear
multivariate growth curves.- The Kalman filter on three-way data matrix for
missing data: a case study on sea water pollution.- Three-way data arrays
with double neighborhood relations as a tool to analyze a contiguity
structure.- Firm performance analysis with panel data.- Multivariate Data
Analysis.- Detection of multivariate outliers by convex hulls.- Reducing
dimensionality effects on kernel density estimation: the bivariate gaussian
case.- Shewharts control chart: some observations.- Projection pursuit
regression with mixed variables.- Recursive estimation of system parameter in
environmental time series models.- Kernel methods for estimating covariance
functions from curves.- Detection of subsamples in link-free regression
analysis.- Asymptotic prior to posterior analysis for graphical gaussian
models.- IV: Case Studies.- Applied Classification and Data Analysis.- Using
qualitative information and neural networks for forecasting purposes in
financial time series.- A new approach to the stock location assignment
problem by multidimensional scaling and seriation.- Food coding in
nutritional surveys.- UNAIDED: a PC system for binary and ternary
segmentation analysis.- AuthorIndex.- Key Words Index.