This book presents all of the latest developments in the field of clustering methodology for symbolic dataβpaying special attention to the classification methodology for multi-valued list, interval-valued and histogram-valued data methodology, along with numerous worked examples. The book also offers an expansive discussion of data management techniques showing how to manage the large complex dataset into more manageable datasets ready for analyses.
Filled with examples, tables, figures, and case studies, Clustering Methodology for Symbolic Data begins by offering chapters on data management, distance measures, general clustering techniques, partitioning, divisive clustering, and agglomerative and pyramid clustering.
Clustering Methodology for Symbolic Data will appeal to practitioners of symbolic data analysis, such as statisticians and economists within the public sectors. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students of, and researchers within, web mining, text mining and bioengineering.
LYNNE BILLARD, PHD, is University Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia, USA. She has over two hundred and twenty-five publications mostly in leading journals, and co-edited six books. Professor Billard is a former president of ASA, IBS, and ENAR.
EDWIN DIDAY, PHD, is the Professor of Computer Science at Centre De Recherche en Mathematiques de la Decision, CEREMADE, UniversitΓ© Paris-Dauphine, UniversitΓ© PSL, Paris, France. He has published fifty-eight papers and authored or edited fourteen books. Professor Diday is also the founder of the Symbolic Data Analysis field.