Selected Contributions in Data Analysis and Classification (Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540735585 ISBN 13: 9783540735588

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

By inviting me to write a preface, the organizers of the event in honour of Edwin Diday, have expressed their a?ection and I appreciate this very much. This gives me an opportunity to express my friendship and admiration for Edwin Diday, and I wrote this foreword with pleasure. My ?rst few meetings withEdwinDidaydatebackto1965through1975,daysofthedevelopmentof French statistics. This was a period when access to computers revolutionized the practice of statistics. This does not refer to individual computers or to terminals that have access to powerful networks. This was the era of the ?rst university calculation centres that one accessed over a counter. One would deposit cards on which program and data were punched in and come back a few hours or days later for the results. Like all those who used linear data analysis, the computer enabled me to calculate for each data set the value of mathematical objects (eigenvalues and eigenvectors for example) whose optimality properties had been demonstrated by mathematicians. It was - ready a big step to be able to do this in concrete experimental situations. With Dynamic Clustering Algorithm, Edwin Diday allowed us to discover that computers could be more than just a way of giving numerical values to known mathematical objects. Besides the e?ciency of the solutions he built, he led us to integrate the access to computers di?erently in the research and practice of data analysis.

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Synopsis

This volume presents recent methodological developments in data analysis and classification. A wide range of topics is covered that includes methods for classification and clustering, dissimilarity analysis, graph analysis, consensus methods, conceptual analysis of data, analysis of symbolic data, statistical multivariate methods, data mining and knowledge discovery in databases. Besides structural and theoretical results, the book presents a wide variety of applications, in fields such as biology, micro-array analysis, cyber traffic, bank fraud detection, and text analysis. Combining new methodological advances with a wide variety of real applications, this volume is certainly of special value for researchers and practitioners, providing new analytical tools that are useful in theoretical research and daily practice in classification and data analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540735585
• ISBN 13: 9783540735588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 648
• Editor: Brito Paula, Bertrand Patrice, Cucumel Guy, De Carvalho Francisco