Download or read book Data Analysis, Classification and the Forward Search written by Sergio Zani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new developments in data analysis, classification and multivariate statistics, and in their algorithmic implementation. The volume offers contributions to the theory of clustering and discrimination, multidimensional data analysis, data mining, and robust statistics with a special emphasis on the novel Forward Search approach. Many papers provide significant insight in a wide range of fields of application. Customer satisfaction and service evaluation are two examples of such emerging fields.