This volume provides recent research results in data analysis, classification and multivariate statistics and highlights perspectives for new scientific developments within these areas. Particular attention is devoted to methodological issues in clustering, statistical modeling and data mining. The volume also contains significant contributions to a wide range of applications such as finance, marketing, and social sciences. The papers in this volume were first presented at the 7th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (ClaDAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, held at the University of Catania, Italy.
Author(s): Fabrizia Mealli, Barbara Pacini, Giulia Roli (auth.), Salvatore Ingrassia, Roberto Rocci, Maurizio Vichi (eds.)
Series: Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 587
Tags: Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Econometrics
Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Evaluating the Effects of Subsidies to Firms with Nonignorably Missing Outcomes....Pages 3-11
Evaluating Lecturer’s Capability Over Time. Some Evidence from Surveys on University Course Quality....Pages 13-20
Evaluating the External Effectiveness of the University Education in Italy....Pages 21-28
Analyzing Research Potential through Redundancy Analysis: the case of the Italian University System....Pages 29-37
A Participative Process for the Definition of a Human Capital Indicator....Pages 39-47
Using Poset Theory to Compare Fuzzy Multidimensional Material Deprivation Across Regions....Pages 49-56
Some Notes on the Applicability of Cluster-Weighted Modeling in Effectiveness Studies....Pages 57-64
Impact Evaluation of Job Training Programs by a Latent Variable Model....Pages 65-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Analysis of Collaborative Patterns in Innovative Networks....Pages 77-84
The Measure of Economic Re-Evaluation: a Coefficient Based on Conjoint Analysis....Pages 85-92
Do Governments Effectively Stabilize Fuel Prices by Reducing Specific Taxes? Evidence from Italy....Pages 93-100
An Analysis of Industry Sector Via Model Based Clustering....Pages 101-108
Impact of Exogenous Shocks on Oil Product Market Prices....Pages 109-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Probabilistic Forecast for Northern New Zealand Seismic Process Based on a Forward Predictive Kernel Estimator....Pages 119-126
Discrete Beta Kernel Graduation of Age-Specific Demographic Indicators....Pages 127-134
Kernel-Type Smoothing Methods of Adjusting for Unit Nonresponse in Presence of Multiple and Different Type Covariates....Pages 135-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Measurement Errors and Uncertainty: A Statistical Perspective....Pages 145-153
Measurement Uncertainty in Quantitative Chimerism Monitoring after Stem Cell Transplantation....Pages 155-163
Satisfaction, Loyalty and WOM in Dental Care Sector....Pages 165-172
Controlled Calibration in Presence of Clustered Measures....Pages 173-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Latent Ties Identification in Inter-Firms Social Networks....Pages 185-193
A Universal Procedure for Biplot Calibration....Pages 195-202
Analysis of Skew-Symmetry in Proximity Data....Pages 203-210
Social Stratification and Consumption Patterns: Cultural Practices and Lifestyles in Japan....Pages 211-218
Centrality of Asymmetric Social Network: Singular Value Decomposition, Conjoint Measurement, and Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 219-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Some Perspectives on Multivariate Outlier Detection....Pages 231-238
Spatial Clustering of Multivariate Data Using Weighted MAX-SAT....Pages 239-246
Clustering Multiple Data Streams....Pages 247-254
Notes on the Robustness of Regression Trees Against Skewed and Contaminated Errors....Pages 255-263
A Note on Model Selection in STIMA....Pages 265-272
Conditional Classification Trees by Weighting the Gini Impurity Measure....Pages 273-280
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Visualizing and Exploring High Frequency Financial Data: Beanplot Time Series....Pages 283-290
Using Partial Least Squares Regression in Lifetime Analysis....Pages 291-299
Robust Portfolio Asset Allocation....Pages 301-309
A Dynamic Analysis of Stock Markets through Multivariate Latent Markov Models....Pages 311-318
A MEM Analysis of African Financial Markets....Pages 319-328
Group Structured Volatility....Pages 329-335
Front Matter....Pages 337-337
Clustering Spatial Functional Data: A Method Based on a Nonparametric Variogram Estimation....Pages 339-346
Prediction of an Industrial Kneading Process via the Adjustment Curve....Pages 347-355
Dealing with FDA Estimation Methods....Pages 357-365
Front Matter....Pages 367-367
Testing for Dependence in Mixed Effect Models for Multivariate Mixed Responses....Pages 369-376
Size and Power of Tests for Regression Outliers in the Forward Search....Pages 377-384
Using the Bootstrap in the Analysis of Fractionated Screening Designs....Pages 385-392
CRAGGING Measures of Variable Importance for Data with Hierarchical Structure....Pages 393-400
Regression Trees with Moderating Effects....Pages 401-408
Data Mining for Longitudinal Data with Different Treatments....Pages 409-416
Front Matter....Pages 417-417
Supervised Classification of Thermal High-Resolution IR Images for the Diagnosis of Raynaud’s Phenomenon....Pages 419-427
A Mixture Regression Model for Resistin Levels Data....Pages 429-436
Interpreting Air Quality Indices as Random Quantities....Pages 437-445
Comparing Air Quality Indices Aggregated by Pollutant....Pages 447-454
Identifying Partitions of Genes and Tissue Samples in Microarray Data....Pages 455-462
Front Matter....Pages 463-463
Assessing Balance of Categorical Covariates and Measuring Local Effects in Observational Studies....Pages 465-472
Handling Missing Data in Presence of Categorical Variables: a New Imputation Procedure....Pages 473-480
The Brown and Payne Model of Voter Transition Revisited....Pages 481-488
On the Nonlinearity of Homogeneous Ordinal Variables....Pages 489-496
New Developments in Ordinal Non Symmetrical Correspondence Analysis....Pages 497-504
Correspondence Analysis of Surveys with Multiple Response Questions....Pages 505-513
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Control Sample, Association and Causality....Pages 517-523
A Semantic Based Dirichlet Compound Multinomial Model....Pages 525-533
Distance-Based Approach in Multivariate Association....Pages 535-542
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
New Weighed Similarity Indexes for Market Segmentation Using Categorical Variables....Pages 543-551
Causal Inference with Multivariate Outcomes: a Simulation Study....Pages 553-560
Using Multilevel Models to Analyse the Context of Electoral Data....Pages 561-568
A Geometric Approach to Subset Selection and Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction....Pages 569-576
Local Statistical Models for Variables Selection....Pages 577-583
Back Matter....Pages 585-587
