Data Analysis

The first part of this book is devoted to methods seeking relevant dimensions of data. The variables thus obtained provide a synthetic description which often results in a graphical representation of the data. After a general presentation of the discriminating analysis, the second part is devoted to clustering methods which constitute another method, often complementary to the methods described in the first part, to synthesize and to analyze the data. The book concludes by examining the links existing between data mining and data analysis.

Table of Contents:
Preface xiii Chapter 1. Principal Component Analysis: Application to Statistical Process Control 1 Gilbert SAPORTA, Ndèye NIANG 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Data table and related subspaces 2 1.3. Principal component analysis 8 1.4. Interpretation of PCA results 11 1.5. Application to statistical process control 18 1.6. Conclusion 22 1.7. Bibliography 23 Chapter 2. Correspondence Analysis: Extensions and Applications to the Statistical Analysis of Sensory Data 25 Jérôme PAGÈS 2.1. Correspondence analysis 25 2.2. Multiple correspondence analysis 39 2.3. An example of application at the crossroads of CA and MCA 50 2.4. Conclusion: two other extensions 63 2.5. Bibliography 64 Chapter 3. Exploratory Projection Pursuit 67 Henri CAUSSINUS, Anne RUIZ-GAZEN 3.1. Introduction 67 3.2. General principles 68 3.3. Some indexes of interest: presentation and use 71 3.4. Generalized principal component analysis 76 3.5. Example 81 3.6. Further topics 86 3.7. Bibliography 89 Chapter 4. The Analysis of Proximity Data 93 Gerard D’AUBIGNY 4.1. Introduction 93 4.2. Representation of proximity data in a metric space 97 4.3. Isometric embedding and projection 103 4.4. Multidimensional scaling and approximation 108 4.5. Afielded application 122 4.6. Bibliography 139 Chapter 5. Statistical Modeling of Functional Data 149 Philippe BESSE, Hervé CARDOT 5.1. Introduction 149 5.2. Functional framework152 5.3. Principal components analysis 156 5.4. Linear regression models and extensions 161 5.5. Forecasting 169 5.6. Concluding remarks 176 5.7. Bibliography 177 Chapter 6. Discriminant Analysis 181 Gilles CELEUX 6.1. Introduction 181 6.2. Main steps in supervised classification 182 6.3. Standard methods in supervised classification 190 6.4. Recent advances 204 6.5. Conclusion 211 6.6. Bibliography 212 Chapter 7. Cluster Analysis 215 Mohamed NADIF, Gérard GOVAERT 7.1. Introduction 215 7.2. General principles 217 7.3. Hierarchical clustering 224 7.4. Partitional clustering: the k-means algorithm 233 7.5. Miscellaneous clustering methods 239 7.6. Block clustering 245 7.7. Conclusion 251 7.8. Bibliography 251 Chapter 8. Clustering and the Mixture Model 257 Gérard GOVAERT 8.1. Probabilistic approaches in cluster analysis 257 8.2. The mixture model 261 8.3. EM algorithm 263 8.4. Clustering and the mixture model 267 8.5.Gaussian mixture model 271 8.6. Binary variables 275 8.7. Qualitative variables 279 8.8. Implementation 282 8.9. Conclusion 284 8.10. Bibliography 284 Chapter 9. Spatial Data Clustering 289 Christophe AMBROISE, Mo DANG 9.1. Introduction 289 9.2. Non-probabilistic approaches 293 9.3. Markov random fields as models 295 9.4. Estimating the parameters for a Markov field 305 9.5. Application to numerical ecology 313 9.6. Bibliography 316 List of Authors 319 Index 323

About the Author :
Gérard Govaert is Professor at the University of Technology of Compiègne, France. He is also a member of the CNRS Laboratory Heudiasyc (Heuristic and diagnostic of complex systems). His research interests include latent structure modeling, model selection, model-based cluster analysis, block clustering and statistical pattern recognition. He is one of the authors of the MIXMOD (MIXture MODelling) software.

Review :
"The first part of this book is devoted to methods seeking relevantdimensions of data. The variables thus obtained provide a synthetic description which often results in a graphical representation of the data. After a general presentation of the discriminating analysis, the second part is devoted to clustering methods which constitute another method, often complementary to the methods described in the first part, to synthesize and to analyze the data." (Zentralblatt MATH 2016)