Classification, clustering, and data mining applications
Subtitle: proceedings of the Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 15-18 July 2004
By: David Banks ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Banks, David L.
Series: Studies in classification, data analysis, and knowledge organization
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 658
Subjects: Cluster analysis -- Congresses; Pattern perception -- Congresses; Mathematical statistics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Modern data analysis stands at the interface of statistics, computer science, and discrete mathematics. This volume describes new methods in this area, with special emphasis on classification and cluster analysis. Those methods are applied to problems in information retrieval, phylogeny, medical diagnosis, microarrays, and other active research areas.