Analysis of Symbolic Data : Exploratory Methods for Extracting Statistical Information from Complex Data /

This first systematic and self-contained monograph on "Symbolic Data Analysis" presents the most recent methods for analyzing and visualizing symbolic data. It generalizes classical methods of exploratory, statistical and graphical data analysis to the case of complex data where the entrie...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bock, Hans Hermann
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Diday, E.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer, 2000.
Series:	Studies in classification, data analysis, and knowledge organization.
Subjects:	Statistics. Data structures (Computer science) Economics > Statistics. Economics, Mathematical. Economics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Project: Purpose, History, Perspective
The Classical Data Situation
Symbolic Data
Symbolic Objects
Generation of Symbolic Objects from Relational Databases
Descriptive Statistics for Symbolic Data
Visualizing and Editing Symbolic Objects
Similarity and Dissimilarity
Symbolic Factor Analysis
Discrimination: Assigning Symbolic Objects to Classes
Clustering Methods for Symbolic Objects
Symbolic Approaches for Three-way Data
Illustrative Benchmark Analyses
The SODAS Software Package.