The volume presents innovations in data analysis and classification and gives an overview of the state of the art in these scientific fields and applications. Areas that receive considerable attention in the book are discrimination and clustering, data analysis and statistics, as well as applications in marketing, finance, and medicine. The reader will find material on recent technical and methodological developments and a large number of applications demonstrating the usefulness of the newly developed techniques.

Inhalt
Discrimination and Clustering.- Probability Models and Statistical Methods.- Pattern Recognition and Computational Learning.- Time Series Analysis.- Marketing, Retailing, and Marketing Research.- Finance, Capital Markets, and Risk Management.- Production, Logistics, and Controlling.- Medicine and Health Services.