Data Analysis and Decision Support (Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization)
Contributors: Daniel Baier (Editor); Reinhold Decker (Editor); Lars Schmidt-Thieme (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 23, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9783540260073
Subjects: Cybernetics & systems theory; Data mining; Computer Books: General; Computers; Mathematics; Probability & Statistics - General; Decision support systems; Computer Science; Information Technology; Classification; Clustering; Computers : Computer Science; Computers : Information Technology; Data Analysis; Decision Analysis; Discrimination; Mathematics / Statistics; Cluster analysis
First sentence: Classical data analysis considers single-valued variables such that, for n objects and p variables, each entry xkj of the data matrix X = (xkj)nxp is a real number (quantitative case) or a category (qualitative case).