Classification Methodology for Symbolic Data

Symbolic data analysis is a relatively new field that provides a range of methods for analyzing complex datasets. Standard statistical methods do not have the power or flexibility to make sense of very large datasets, and symbolic data analysis techniques have been developed in order to extract knowledge from such a data.

Classification Methodology for Symbolic Data:

• Provides new classification methodologies for histogram valued data reaching across many fields in data science.
• Demonstrates how to manage a large complex dataset into manageable datasets ready for analysis.
• Features very large contemporary datasets such as time series, interval-valued data and histogram-valued data
• Considers classification models such as dynamical clustering, an extension of K-means, hierarchical pyramidal and Kohonen methodology in detail.
• Includes principal components and correspondence analysis methodology.
• Features a supporting website hosting relevant software.
• Edwin Diday is the founding father of Symbolic Data Analysis.
• Extends and expands on the material in Symbolic Data Analysis: Conceptual Statistics and Data Mining, Billard and Diday (2006)

Classification Methodology for Symbolic Datais aimed at the practitioners of symbolic data analysis: statisticians and economists within the public (e.g. national statistics institutes) and private (e.g. banks, insurance companies, companies managing databases) sectors. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students of, and researchers within, web mining, text mining and bio-engineering.