The volume provides results from the latest methodological developments in data analysis and classification and highlights new emerging subjects within the field. It contains articles about statistical models, classification, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, multivariate analysis, latent variables, knowledge extraction from temporal data, financial and economic applications, and missing values. Papers cover both theoretical and empirical aspects.
Author(s): Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Shu-Kay Ng, K. Wang (auth.), Francesco Palumbo, Carlo Natale Lauro, Michael J. Greenacre (eds.)
Edition: 1st Edition.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: XXII, 482p. 109 illus..
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Clustering of High-Dimensional and Correlated Data....Pages 3-11
Statistical Methods for Cryptography....Pages 13-21
Front Matter....Pages 24-24
An Algorithm for Earthquakes Clustering Based on Maximum Likelihood....Pages 25-32
A Two-Step Iterative Procedure for Clustering of Binary Sequences....Pages 33-40
Clustering Linear Models Using Wasserstein Distance....Pages 41-48
Comparing Approaches for Clustering Mixed Mode Data: An Application in Marketing Research....Pages 49-57
The Progressive Single Linkage Algorithm Based on Minkowski Ultrametrics....Pages 59-66
Visualization of Model-Based Clustering Structures....Pages 67-75
Front Matter....Pages 78-78
Models for Asymmetry in Proximity Data....Pages 79-84
Intimate Femicide in Italy: A Model to Classify How Killings Happened....Pages 85-91
Two-Dimensional Centrality of Asymmetric Social Network....Pages 93-100
The Forward Search for Classical Multidimensional Scaling When the Starting Data Matrix Is Known....Pages 101-109
Front Matter....Pages 112-112
Discriminant Analysis on Mixed Predictors....Pages 113-120
A Statistical Calibration Model for Affymetrix Probe Level Data....Pages 121-128
A Proposal to Fuzzify Categorical Variables in Operational Risk Management....Pages 129-135
Common Optimal Scaling for Customer Satisfaction Models: A Point to Cobb–Douglas’ Form....Pages 137-144
Structural Neural Networks for Modeling Customer Satisfaction....Pages 145-153
Dimensionality of Scores Obtained with a Paired-Comparison Tournament System of Questionnaire Items....Pages 155-162
Using Rasch Measurement to Assess the Role of the Traditional Family in Italy....Pages 163-169
Preserving the Clustering Structure by a Projection Pursuit Approach....Pages 171-178
Front Matter....Pages 112-112
Association Rule Mining of Multimedia Content....Pages 179-186
Front Matter....Pages 188-188
Automatic Dictionary- and Rule-Based Systems for Extracting Information from Text....Pages 189-198
Several Computational Studies About Variable Selection for Probabilistic Bayesian Classifiers....Pages 199-207
Semantic Classification and Co-occurrences: A Method for the Rules Production for the Information Extraction from Textual Data....Pages 209-216
The Effectiveness of University Education: A Structural Equation Model....Pages 217-224
Simultaneous Threshold Interaction Detection in Binary Classification....Pages 225-232
Detecting Subset of Classifiers for Multi-attribute Response Prediction....Pages 233-240
Clustering Textual Data by Latent Dirichlet Allocation: Applications and Extensions to Hierarchical Data....Pages 241-248
Multilevel Latent Class Models for Evaluation of Long-term Care Facilities....Pages 249-256
Author–Coauthor Social Networks and Emerging Scientific Subfields....Pages 257-268
Front Matter....Pages 270-270
A Hierarchical Model for Time Dependent Multivariate Longitudinal Data....Pages 271-279
Covariate Error Bias Effects in Dynamic Regression Model Estimation and Improvement in the Prediction by Covariate Local Clusters....Pages 281-288
Local Multilevel Modeling for Comparisons of Institutional Performance....Pages 289-296
Modelling Network Data: An Introduction to Exponential Random Graph Models....Pages 297-305
Front Matter....Pages 308-308
An Analysis of Earthquakes Clustering Based on a Second-Order Diagnostic Approach....Pages 309-317
Latent Regression in Rasch Framework....Pages 319-327
A Multilevel Latent Variable Model for Multidimensional Longitudinal Data....Pages 329-336
Turning Point Detection Using Markov Switching Models with Latent Information....Pages 337-344
Front Matter....Pages 346-346
Statistical and Numerical Algorithms for Time Series Classification....Pages 347-354
Mining Time Series Data: A Selective Survey....Pages 355-362
Front Matter....Pages 346-346
Predictive Dynamic Models for SMEs....Pages 363-368
Clustering Algorithms for Large Temporal Data Sets....Pages 369-377
Front Matter....Pages 380-380
Robust Clustering for Performance Evaluation....Pages 381-390
Outliers Detection Strategy for a Curve Clustering Algorithm....Pages 391-398
Robust Fuzzy Classification....Pages 399-406
Weighted Likelihood Inference for a Mixed Regressive Spatial Autoregressive Model....Pages 407-414
Detecting Price Outliers in European Trade Data with the Forward Search....Pages 415-423
Front Matter....Pages 426-426
Comparing Continuous Treatment Matching Methods in Policy Evaluation....Pages 427-434
Temporal Aggregation and Closure of VARMA Models: Some New Results....Pages 435-443
An Index for Ranking Financial Portfolios According to Internal Turnover....Pages 445-452
Bayesian Hidden Markov Models for Financial Data....Pages 453-461
Front Matter....Pages 464-464
Regression Imputation for Space-Time Datasets with Missing Values....Pages 465-472
A Multiple Imputation Approach in a Survey on University Teaching Evaluation....Pages 473-482
Back Matter....Pages 1-1
