Advances in Multivariate Data Analysis: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, University of Palermo, July 5–6, 2001Author: Prof. Dr. Hans-Hermann Bock, Prof. Marcello Chiodi, Prof. Antonino Mineo Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 978-3-540-20889-1 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17111-6Table of Contents:The STP Procedure as Overfitting Avoidance Tool in Classification Trees A Modal Symbolic Pattern Classifier Proximity Measures Between Classification Trees Ordinal Classification Trees Based on Impurity Measures Space Time Noisy Observation Smoothing Spectral Analysis in Frequency and Time Domain for Noisy Time Series A Resistant Measure of Heteroskedasticity in Explorative Time Series Analysis Smoothing Score Algorithm for Generalized Additive Models Bootstrap Variables Selection in Neural Network Regression Models Robust Centre Location in Radial Basis Function Networks The Genetic Algorithm Estimates for the Parameters of Order p Normal Distributions Non-linear Dynamics in the Industrial Production Index Tensorial Co-Structure Analysis for the Full Multi Modules Customer Satisfaction Evaluation A Proposal of Classification of Wholesale Trade Enterprises on the Base of Structural and Performance Indicators The Analysis of Poverty in Italy: A Fuzzy Dynamic Approach Combining Information from Several Experts: Selecting and Stopping Rules in Sequential Consulting A Spatial Clustering Hierarchical Model for Disease Mapping Second-order Interaction in a Trivariate Generalized Gamma Distribution Mortality and Air Pollution in Philadelphia: A Dynamic Generalized Linear Modelling Approach The Multivariate Adaptive Sampling for Estimating the Diversity in Biological Populations, Includes bibliographical references and indexes, mass deacidified