Uwe Ligges

Claus Weihs

Olaf Mersmann

A new and refreshingly different approach to presenting the foundations of statistical algorithms, Foundations of Statistical Algorithms: With References to R Packages reviews the historical development of basic algorithms to illuminate the evolution of today’s more powerful statistical algorithms. It emphasizes recurring themes in all statistical algorithms, including computation, assessment and verification, iteration, intuition, randomness, repetition and parallelization, and scalability. Unique in scope, the book reviews the upcoming challenge of scaling many of the established techniques to very large data sets and delves into systematic verification by demonstrating how to derive general classes of worst case inputs and emphasizing the importance of testing over a large number of different inputs. Broadly accessible, the book offers examples, exercises, and selected solutions in each chapter as well as access to a supplementary website. After working through the material covered in the book, readers should not only understand current algorithms but also gain a deeper understanding of how algorithms are constructed, how to evaluate new algorithms, which recurring principles are used to tackle some of the tough problems statistical programmers face, and how to take an idea for a new method and turn it into something practically useful.

With References to R Packages

Foundations of Statistical Algorithms

Nils Raabe

Karsten Luebke

In this work we introduce a method for classification and visualization. In contrast to simultaneous methods like e.g. Kohonen SOM this new approach, called KMC/EDAM, runs through two stages. In the first stage the data is clustered by classical methods like K-means clustering. In the second stage the centroids of the obtained clusters are visualized in a fixed target space which is directly comparable to that of SOM.

A New Approach for the Visualization of K-Means Clustering Results

KMC/EDAM

Größe und Komplexität empirischer ökonometrischer Modelle haben in den letzten Jahrzehnten immer mehr zugenommen. Die Zuverlässigkeit des zugrundeliegenden Datenmaterials hat sich dagegen kaum verbessert, und eine Fehlspezifizierung von Meßfehlermodellen zur Schließung der Lücke zwischen theoretischen ökonomischen Variablen und den verfügbaren Daten erscheint schon wegen der unglücklichen Trennung zwischen Datenproduzenten und Datennutzern kaum vermeidbar. In dieser Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen solcher Fehlspezifizierungen auf Parameterschätzungen und Prognosen in Modellen wachsender Komplexität bis hin zu nichtlinearen interdependenten dynamischen Modellen analysiert mit Hilfe von asymptotischen Aussagen und Monte-Carlo-Simulationen. Für ein makroökonomisches Modell für die BRD werden außerdem Methoden diskutiert zur Beschaffung von Informationen über Art und Größe von Meßfehlern. Die Simulationsrechnungen basieren auf der Zuverlässigkeit und Schnelligkeit des zugrundeliegenden numerischen Algorithmus zur Full-Information-Maximum-Likelihood-Schätzung in nichtlinearen interdependenten Modellen. Darstellung und Diskussion eines für diesen Zweck entwickelten Algorithmus (trust-region-Verfahren mit automatischer Skalierung) bilden den zweiten Schwerpunkt der Arbeit.

Auswirkungen von Fehlern in den Daten auf Parameterschätzungen und Prognosen

Wolfgang A. Gaul

The contributions in this volume represent the latest research results in the field of Classification, Clustering, and Data Analysis. Besides the theoretical analysis, papers focus on various application fields as Archaeology, Astronomy, Bio-Sciences, Business, Electronic Data and Web, Finance and Insurance, Library Science and Linguistics, Marketing, Music Science, and Quality Assurance.

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., University of Dortmund, March 9-11, 2004

Classification - the Ubiquitous Challenge

Hermann Locarek-Junge

Clustering and Classification, Data Analysis, Data Handling and Business Intelligence are research areas at the intersection of statistics, mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as in business and economics, marketing and finance, engineering, linguistics, archaeology, musicology, biology and medical science. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers presented during the 11th Biennial IFCS Conference and 33rd Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft für Klassifikation - GfKl). The conference was organized in cooperation with the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), and was hosted by Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in March 2009.

Proceedings of the 11th IFCS Biennial Conference and 33rd Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation e.V., Dresden, March 13-18, 2009

Classification as a Tool for Research

Donatella Vicari

Akinori Okada

Giancarlo Ragozini

This volume presents theoretical developments, applications and computational methods for the analysis and modeling in behavioral and social sciences where data are usually complex to explore and investigate. The challenging proposals provide a connection between statistical methodology and the social domain with particular attention to computational issues in order to effectively address complicated data analysis problems. The papers in this volume stem from contributions initially presented at the joint international meeting JCS-CLADAG held in Anacapri (Italy) where the Japanese Classification Society and the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society had a stimulating scientific discussion and exchange.

Claus Weihs

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