Advances in data sciences and classification. Proceedings of the 6th conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS-98), Univ. ''La Sapienza'', Rome, Italy, July 21--24, 1998 (Q1297379)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Carroll, J. Douglas; Chaturvedi, Anil}, K-midranges clustering., 3-14 [Zbl 1052.62526] \textit{Cerioli, Andrea}, A new method for detecting influential observations in nonhierarchical cluster analysis., 15-36 [Zbl 1052.62527] \textit{Hennig, C.}, Clustering and outlier identification: fixed point cluster analysis., 37-42 [Zbl 1052.62529] \textit{Korenjak-Černe, Simona; Batagelj, Vladimir}, Clustering large datasets of mixed units., 43-48 [Zbl 1052.62530] \textit{Martín-Fernández, J. A.; Barceló-Vidal, C.; Pawlowsky-Glahn, V.}, A critical approach to nonparametric classification of compositional data., 49-80 [Zbl 1052.62531] \textit{Leclerc, Bruno}, Consensus of classifications: the case of trees., 81-98 [Zbl 1051.91530] \textit{Bodjanova, Slavka}, Compatible and complementary fuzzy partitions., 99-104 [Zbl 1051.91524] \textit{Miyamoto, Sadaaki; Umayahara, Kazutaka}, Two methods of fuzzy \(c\)-means and classification functions., 105-130 [Zbl 1051.91528] \textit{Bachar, Kaddour; Lerman, Israël-César}, Statistical conditions for a linear complexity for an algorithm of hierarchical classification under constraint of contiguity., 131-136 [Zbl 1052.62525] \textit{Batagelj, Vladimir; Ferligoj, Anuška}, Constrained clustering problems., 137-151 [Zbl 1051.91522] \textit{Guéguen, Laurent; Vignes, Régine; Lebbe, Jacques}, Maximal predictive clustering with order constraint: A linear and optimal algorithm., 153-160 [Zbl 1051.91526] \textit{Lari, Isabella; Maravalle, Maurizio; Simeone, Bruno}, A linear programming based heuristic for a hard clustering problem on trees., 161-170 [Zbl 1051.91527] \textit{Mizuta, Masahiro}, Two principal points of symmetric distributions., 171-176 [Zbl 1052.62516] \textit{Nicoloyannis, N.; Terrenoire, M.; Tounissoux, D.}, Pertinence for a classification., 177-184 [Zbl 1051.91529] \textit{Györfi, László; Horváth, Márta}, On the asymptotic normality of a resubstitution error estimate., 197-204 [Zbl 1052.62507] \textit{Orman, Gabriel V.}, Stochastic methods for generative systems analysis., 205-210 [Zbl 1052.68627] \textit{Rasson, Jean-Paul; Jacquemin, Didier; Bertholet, Vincent}, A new geometrical hypothesis for clustering and discriminant analysis., 257-264 [Zbl 1052.62532] \textit{Bock, Hans-Hermann}, Clustering and neural networks., 265-277 [Zbl 1051.91523] \textit{Michel, Guy; Lambert, Jean Luc}, A new way to build oblique decision trees using linear programming., 303-309 [Zbl 1051.90509] \textit{Bozdogan, Hamparsum; Shigemasu, Kazuo}, Bayesian factor analysis model and choosing the number of factors using a new informational complexity criterion., 335-342 [Zbl 1052.62520] \textit{Ciok, Alicja}, Discretization as a tool in cluster analysis., 349-354 [Zbl 1052.62528] \textit{Brito, Paula}, Symbolic clustering of probabilistic data., 385-390 [Zbl 1051.91525] \textit{de Carvalho, Francisco de A. T.; de Souza, Renata M. C. R.}, Statistical proximity functions of Boolean symbolic objects based on histograms., 391-396 [Zbl 1052.62533] \textit{Diday, Edwin}, Symbolic data analysis: A mathematical framework and tool for data mining., 409-416 [Zbl 1052.68615] \textit{Lissoir, Sandrine; Rasson, Jean-Paul}, Symbolic kernel discriminant analysis., 417-423 [Zbl 1052.68616] \textit{Polaillon, G.}, Interpretation and reduction of complex data., 433-440 [Zbl 1052.68617] \textit{Valtchev, Petko}, Proximity function for clustering of software objects., 441-448 [Zbl 1052.68618] \textit{Rajman, Martin; Besançon, Romaric}, Text mining -- knowledge extraction from unstructured texual data., 473-480 [Zbl 1051.68562] \textit{Luo, Guanzhong}, A general formulation of multidimensional unfolding models involving the latitude of acceptance., 483-488 [Zbl 1051.91520] \textit{Miyano, Hisao}, A note on identification and similarity models., 497-502 [Zbl 1051.91521] \textit{Rivas Moya, Teresa}, Obtaining disparities as slopes of greatest minorant convex., 509-516 [Zbl 1052.62501] \textit{Dogde, Yadolah; Rousson, Valentin}, Multivariate \(L_1\) mean., 539-546 [Zbl 1051.62511] \textit{Durand, Jean-François; Molinari, Nicolas; Sabatier, Robert}, Simple and multiple regression splines with bounded optimal knots., 546-554 [Zbl 1051.65501]