Cluster Analysis - Hardcover

Everitt, Brian S.; Landau, Sabine; Leese, Morven; Stahl, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470749911 ISBN 13: 9780470749913

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

Cluster analysis comprises a range of methods for classifying multivariate data into subgroups. By organizing multivariate data into such subgroups, clustering can help reveal the characteristics of any structure or patterns present. These techniques have proven useful in a wide range of areas such as medicine, psychology, market research and bioinformatics.

This fifth edition of the highly successful Cluster Analysis includes coverage of the latest developments in the field and a new chapter dealing with finite mixture models for structured data.

Real life examples are used throughout to demonstrate the application of the theory, and figures are used extensively to illustrate graphical techniques. The book is comprehensive yet relatively non-mathematical, focusing on the practical aspects of cluster analysis.

Key Features:

• Presents a comprehensive guide to clustering techniques, with focus on the practical aspects of cluster analysis
• Provides a thorough revision of the fourth edition, including new developments in clustering longitudinal data and examples from bioinformatics and gene studies./li>
• Updates the chapter on mixture models to include recent developments and presents a new chapter on mixture modeling for structured data

Practitioners and researchers working in cluster analysis and data analysis will benefit from this book.

About this title

About the Author

Brian S. Everitt, Head of the Biostatistics and Computing Department and Professor of Behavioural Statistics, Kings College London. He has authored/ co-authored over 50 books on statistics and approximately 100 papers and other articles, and is also joint editor of Statistical Methods in Medical Research.

Dr Sabine Landau, Head of Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

Dr Morven Leese, Health Service and Population Research, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

Dr Daniel Stahl, Deptartment of Biostatistics & Computing, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

From the Back Cover

Cluster Analysis: 5th Edition

Brian S. Everitt, Professor Emeritus, King's College, London, UK
Sabine Landau, Morven Leese and Daniel Stahl, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK

Cluster analysis comprises a range of methods for classifying multivariate data into subgroups. By organizing multivariate data into such subgroups, clustering can help reveal the characteristics of any structure or patterns present. These techniques have proven useful in a wide range of areas such as medicine, psychology, market research and bioinformatics.

This 5th edition of the highly successful Cluster Analysis includes coverage of the latest developments in the field and a new chapter dealing with finite mixture models for structured data.

Real life examples are used throughout to demonstrate the application of the theory, and figures are used extensively to illustrate graphical techniques. The book is comprehensive yet relatively non-mathematical, focusing on the practical aspects of cluster analysis.

Key Features:

• Presents a comprehensive guide to clustering techniques, with focus on the practical aspects of cluster analysis.
• Provides a thorough revision of the fourth edition, including new developments in clustering longitudinal data and examples from bioinformatics and gene studies
• Updates the chapter on mixture models to include recent developments and presents a new chapter on mixture modeling for structured data.

Practitioners and researchers working in cluster analysis and data analysis will benefit from this book.

Brian S. Everitt, Professor Emeritus, King's College, London, UK
Sabine Landau, Morven Leese and Daniel Stahl, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, UK

Cluster analysis comprises a range of methods for classifying multivariate data into subgroups. By organizing multivariate data into such subgroups, clustering can help reveal the characteristics of any structure or patterns present. These techniques have proven useful in a wide range of areas such as medicine, psychology, market research and bioinformatics.

This 5th edition of the highly successful Cluster Analysis includes coverage of the latest developments in the field and a new chapter dealing with finite mixture models for structured data.

Real life examples are used throughout to demonstrate the application of the theory, and figures are used extensively to illustrate graphical techniques. The book is comprehensive yet relatively non-mathematical, focusing on the practical aspects of cluster analysis.

Key Features:

• Presents a comprehensive guide to clustering techniques, with focus on the practical aspects of cluster analysis.
• Provides a thorough revision of the fourth edition, including new developments in clustering longitudinal data and examples from bioinformatics and gene studies
• Updates the chapter on mixture models to include recent developments and presents a new chapter on mixture modeling for structured data.

Practitioners and researchers working in cluster analysis and data analysis will benefit from this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470749911
• ISBN 13: 9780470749913
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 352