| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 8 |
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| Clustering and Discrimination | 13 |
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| Genetic Algorithms- based Approaches for Clustering Time Series | 14 |
| On the Choice of the Kernel Function in Kernel Discriminant Analysis Using Information Complexity | 22 |
| Growing Clustering Algorithms in Market Segmentation: Defining Target Groups and Related Marketing Communication | 33 |
| Graphical Representation of Functional Clusters and MDS Configurations | 41 |
| Estimation of the Structural Mean of a Sample of Curves by Dynamic Time Warping | 48 |
| Sequential Decisional Discriminant Analysis | 58 |
| Regularized Sliced Inverse Regression with Applications in Classification | 67 |
| Multidimensional Data Analysis and Multivariate Statistics | 75 |
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| Approaches to Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling with External Information | 76 |
| Variable Architecture Bayesian Neural Networks: Model Selection Based on EMC | 84 |
| Missing Data in Optimal Scaling | 92 |
| Simple Component Analysis Based on RV Coefficient | 100 |
| Baum-Eagon Inequality in Probabilistic Labeling Problems | 109 |
| Monotone Constrained EM Algorithms for Multinomial Mixture Models | 117 |
| Visualizing Dependence of Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Methods Yielding Spatial Configurations | 125 |
| Automatic Discount Selection for Exponential Family State-Space Models | 133 |
| A Generalization of the Polychoric Correlation Coefficient | 141 |
| The Effects of MEP Distributed Random Effects on Variance Component Estimation in Multilevel Models | 149 |
| Calibration Confidence Regions Using Empirical Likelihood | 159 |
| Robust Methods and the Forward Search | 167 |
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| Random Start Forward Searches with Envelopes for Detecting Clusters in Multivariate Data | 168 |
| Robust Transformation of Proportions Using the Forward Search | 177 |
| The Forward Search Method AppUed to Geodetic Transformations | 185 |
| An R Package for the Forward Analysis of Multivariate Data | 193 |
| A Forward Search Method for Robust Generahsed Procrustes Analysis | 202 |
| A Projection Method for Robust Estimation and Clustering in Large Data Sets | 212 |
| Robust Multivariate Calibration | 220 |
| Data Mining Methods and Software | 228 |
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| Procrustes Techniques for Text Mining | 229 |
| Building Recommendations from Random Walks on Library OPAC Usage Data | 237 |
| A Software Tool via Web for the Statistical Data Analysis: R-php | 249 |
| Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification and Regression Trees | 257 |
| Variable Selection Using Random Forests | 265 |
| Boosted Incremental Tree-based Imputation of Missing Data | 273 |
| Sensitivity of Attributes on the Performance of Attribute-Aware Collaborative Filtering | 281 |
| Multivariate Methods for Customer Satisfaction and Service Evaluation | 289 |
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| Customer Satisfaction Evaluation: An Approach Based on Simultaneous Diagonalization | 290 |
| Analyzing Evaluation Data: Modelling and Testing for Homogeneity | 299 |
| Archetypal Analysis for Data Driven Benchmarking | 308 |
| Determinants of Secondary School Dropping Out: a Structural Equation Model | 318 |
| Testing Procedures for Multilevel Models with Administrative Data | 328 |
| Multidimensional Versus Unidimensional Models for Ability Testing | 337 |
| Multivariate Methods in Applied Science | 345 |
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| A Spatial Mixed Model for Sectorial Labour Market Data | 346 |
| The Impact of the New Labour Force Survey on the Employed Classification | 355 |
| Using CATPCA to Evaluate Market Regulation | 364 |
| Credit Risk Management Through Robust Generalized Linear Models | 372 |
| Classification of Financial Returns According to Thresholds Exceedances | 382 |
| Nonparametric Clustering of Seismic Events | 392 |
| A Non- Homogeneous Poisson Based Model for Daily Rainfall Data | 400 |
| A Comparison of Data Mining Methods and Logistic Regression to Determine Factors Associated with Death Following Injury | 412 |
| Author Index | 419 |
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