Between Data Science and Applied Data Analysis : Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V. University of Mannheim July 22–24 2002 The volume presents new developments in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and relevant applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are clustering discrimination data analysis and statistics as well as applications in economics biology and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of application papers demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques