Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization is a book series which offers constant and up-to-date information on the most recent developments and methods in the fields of statistical data analysis, exploratory statistics, classification and clustering, handling of information and ordering of knowledge. It covers a broad scope of theoretical, methodological as well as application-oriented articles, surveys and discussions from an international authorship and includes fields like computational statistics, pattern recognition, biological taxonomy, DNA and genome analysis, marketing, finance and other areas in economics, databases and the internet. A major purpose is to show the intimate interplay between various, seemingly unrelated domains and to foster the cooperation between mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists and practitioners by offering well-based and innovative solutions to urgent problems of practice.