Data Analysis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Multivariate and Longitudinal Data on Growing Children

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Presentation of the French Auxological Survey

      • Michel Sempé, Groupe d’Auxologie Médico-Sociale

      Pages 3-6

   3. Introduction to the Proposed Solutions

      • Pieter M. Kroonenberg

      Pages 7-11

   4. Solution Using Statis

      • Christine Lavit, Marie-Odile Pernin

      Pages 13-29

   5. Solution Using Spectramap

      • P. J. Lewi, G. Calomme, J. Van Hoof

      Pages 31-48

   6. Solution Using “Longi”

      • Jacques Pontier, Marie-Odile Pernin

      Pages 49-65

   7. Solution Using Clustering Methods

      • Antonio Mineo

      Pages 67-87

   8. Solutions Using a Three-Mode Principal Component Analysis and Some Comparison Results with the Other Approaches

      • Pieter M. Kroonenberg

      Pages 89-112

3. Prehistoric Assemblages and Lithic Artifacts from a Small West-European Area

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Problems of Chronological Seriation in the Epipaleolithic (“Mesolithic”)

      • J. G. Rozoy

      Pages 115-122

   3. A Seriation through Correspondence Analysis with Construction of a Continuous Gradient

      • J. L. Slachmuylder

      Pages 123-151

   4. Analysis of Contingency Data Using Spectramap

      • P. J. Lewi, J. Van Hoof, G. Calomme

      Pages 153-167

   5. Conclusion

      • J. G. Rozoy

      Pages 169-170

4. A Comparison of Results of European Elections

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Presentation of the Problem

      • J. Janssen, P. Cullus, P. Van Brussel

      Pages 173-176

   3. The Comparative Study of Results of Elections

      • P. Cullus

      Pages 177-191

   4. Similarity Structure Analysis of European Elections

      • L. Guttman, S. Levy

      Pages 193-204

   5. Conclusion

      • P. Van Brussel

      Pages 205-205

5. Classification of Heterogeneous Data Related to Microcomputers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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This book is the result of the fourth International Symposium on Data Analysis held on June 1985 at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles with the help'of the European Institute for Advanced Management. As the preceding ones, the organization of the Symposium started with a call for real life problems from which an International Com­ mittee selected six topics and asked for several solutions. These topics are : I) Multivariate and longitudinal data on growing children 2) Prehistoric assemblages and lithic artifacts from a small We- european area 3) A comparison of results of European elections 4) Classification of heterogeneous data related to microcomputers 5) Group technology in production management 6) Juvenile gelinquency They are covered by the S1X chapters of this book in the following systematic way : a) firstly, a presentation of the problem is given in the original context of the relevant discipline (Medicine, archaelogy, politics, marketing, production and education); b) Secondly, we present the solution found by people who presents the problem; c) thirdly, we find the other retained solutions among the most significative ones; v vi PREFACE d) finally, a short conclusion compares the different approaches. The diversity of the six selected problems clearly shows that Data Analysis can be used for solving a wide variety of problems. Moreover, the fact that each problem is approached by several dif­ ferent way - at least two - also shows that, in general, a "univer­ sal" statistical method does not exist.

• Statistica
• classification
• data analysis
• linear optimization
• medicine

• Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium

  Jacques Janssen

• IBM Scientific Center, Paris, France

  F. Marcotorchino

• I.N.R.I.A., Le Chesnay, France

  J. M. Proth

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