This volume contains revised versions of selected papers presented at the biennial
meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) of the Italian
Statistical Society, which was held in Macerata, September 12–14, 2007. Carlo
Lauro chaired the Scientific Programme Committee and Francesco Palumbo chaired
the Local Organizing Committee.
The scientific programme scheduled 150 oral presentations and one poster session.
Sessions were organised in five plenary sessions, 10 invited paper specialised
sessions and 24 solicited paper sessions. Contributed papers and posters were
54 and 12, respectively.
Five eminent scholars, who have given important impact in the Classification
and Data Analysis fields, were invited as keynote speakers, they are H. Bozdogan,
S.R. Masera, G. McLachlan, A. Montanari, A. Rizzi.
The volume provides results from the latest methodological developments in data analysis and classification and highlights new emerging subjects within the field. It contains articles about statistical models, classification, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, multivariate analysis, latent variables, knowledge extraction from temporal data, financial and economic applications, and missing values. Papers cover both theoretical and empirical aspects.