Novel Biclustering Methods for Re-Ordering Data Matrices (P.A. DiMaggio Jr., A. Subramani, C.A. Floudas)
Clustering Time Series Data with Distance Matrices (O. Şeref, W.A. Chaovalitwongse)
Mathematical Models of Supervised Learning and Application to Medical Diagnosis (R. De Asmundis, M.R. Guarracino)
Predictive Model for Early Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease (E.K. Lee, T.-L. Wu, F. Goldstein, A. Levey)
Strategies for Bias Reduction in Estimation of Marginal Means with Data Missing at Random (B. Chen, R.J. Cook)
Cardiovascular Informatics: A Perspective on Promises and Challenges of IVUS Data Analysis (I.A. Kakadiaris, E.G.M. Ruiz)
An Introduction to the Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data (G. Gazzola, C.-A. Chou, M.K. Jeong, W.A. Chaovalitwongse)
Sensory Neuroprostheses: From Signal Processing and Coding to Neural Plasticity in the Central Nervous System (F. Panetsos, A. Sanchez-Jimenez, C. Herrera-Rincon)
EEG Based Biomarker Identification Using Graph-Theoretic Concepts: Case Study in Alcoholism (V. Sakkalis, K. Marias)
Maximal Connectivity and Constraints in the Human Brain (R.V. Belavkin)
Preface
Novel Biclustering Methods for Re-Ordering Data Matrices (P.A. DiMaggio Jr., A. Subramani, C.A. Floudas)
Clustering Time Series Data with Distance Matrices (O. Şeref, W.A. Chaovalitwongse)
Chapter 1 - Text Analytics: present, past, and future (Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Livia Celardo)
Chapter 2 - Unsupervised analytic strategies to explore large document collections (Michelangelo Misuraca and Maria Spano)
Chapter 3 - Studying narrative flows by Text Analysis e Network Text Analysis (Cristiano Felaco)
Chapter 4 - Key passages : from statistics to deep learning (Laurent Vanni, Marco Corneli, Dominique Longree, Damon Mayaffre and Frederic Precioso)
Chapter 5 - Concentration indices for dialogue dominance phenomena in TV series: the case of the Big Bang Theory (Andrea Fronzetti Colladon and Maurizio Naldi).-Chapter 6 - A conversation analysis of interactions in personal finance forums (Maurizio Naldi)
PART - 2 :Dictionaries and specific languages
Chapter 7 - Big Corpora and Text Clustering: the Italian accounting jurisdiction case (Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Rosamaria Berté)
Chapter 8 - Lexicometric paradoxes of frequency: Comparing VoBIS and NVdB (Luisa Revelli)
Chapter 9 - Emotions and dense words in emotional text analysis: An invariant or a contextual relationship? (Nadia Battisti, Francesca Dolcetti).-Chapter 10 – Text Mining of Public Administration documents: preliminary results on judgements (Romano Maria Francesca, Baldassarini Antonella, Pavone Pasquale)
Chapter 11 - Using the First Axis of a Correspondence Analysis as an Analytic Tool (Bénédicte Pincemin, Alexei Lavrentiev and Céline Guillot-Barbance)
Chapter 12 - Discursive Functions of French Modal Forms: What can Correspondence Analysis tell us about Genre and Diachronic Variation? (Corinne Rossari, Ljiljana Dolamic, Annalena Hütsch, Claudia Ricci, Dennis Wandel)
PART - 3 :Multilingual Text Analysis
Chapter 13 - How to think about finding a sign for a multilingual and multimodal French written
French sign language platform? (Cédric Moreau)
Chapter 14 - Corpus in “natural” language vs “translation” language: LBC corpora, a tool for bilingual lexicographic writing (Annick Farina, Riccardo Billero)
Chapter 15 - The conditional perfect, a quantitative analysis in English-French comparable-parallel corpora (Daniel Henkel)
Chapter 16 - Repeated and anaphoric segments applied to trilingual knowledge extraction (Lionel Shen)
Chapter 17 - Looking for topics: a brief review (Ludovic Lebart)
PART - 4 :Applications
Chapter 18 - Where are the Social Sciences going to? The Case of the EU-Funded SSH Research Projects (Matteo Gerli)
Chapter 19 - Topic modeling of Twitter conversations: the case of the National University of Colombia (Eliana Sanandres)
Chapter 20 - Analysing occupational safety culture through mass media monitoring (Livia Celardo, Rita Vallerotonda, Daniele De Santis, Claudio Scarici, Antonio Leva)
Chapter 21 – What volunteers do? A textual analysis of voluntary activities in the Italian context (Francesco Santelli, Giancarlo Ragozini, Marco Musella)
Chapter 22 - Free text analysis in electronic clinical documentation (Antonella Bitetto, Luigi Bollani)
Chapter 23 - Educational culture and job market: A text mining approach (Barbara Cordella, Francesca Greco, Paolo Meoli, Vittorio Palermo & Massimo Grasso)
PART - 1 :Techniques, Methods and Models
Chapter 1 - Text Analytics: present, past, and future (Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi, Livia Celardo)
Chapter 2 - Unsupervised analytic strategies to explore large document collections (Michelangelo Misuraca and Maria Spano)
Selecting Distribution Centers in Disaster Management by Network Analysis and Composition of Probabilistic Preferences (Gavião et al.)
Development of Indicators for Monitoring the Regulatory Compliance of Static Equipment in Industrial Plants: An Empirical Study in the Oil and Gas Sector(Caiado et al.)
Navy Worship Selection and Multicriteria Analysis: The THOR Method Supporting Decision Making (Tenório et al.)
Pricing Scenarios of Sustainable Product-Service Syste: A Post-harvest by Brazilian Farmers View (Lermen et al.)
Supplier in the Supply Chain: A Bibliometric Analysis (Krainer et al.)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Photovoltaic Solar Energy: A Bibliometric Literature Review (Teixeira)
Analysing Plastic Cups Use: A Psychological Approach (D´ Agostin et al.)
Barriers to the Diffusion of Renewable Energies: Literature Review (Zamparetti et al.)
Organizational Performances of Distributed Generation in Brazil Electric Utilities: A Balanced Scorecard Perspective (B. Rosa et al.)
EPQ Model with Partial Backordering Considering Environmental Aspects and Stochastic Demand (Silva et al.)
Sustainability in Logistics Systems and its Impact on the Level of Service Definition: An Exploratory Analysis using Structural Equation Modeling (Martins et al.)
Supply Chain Management Practices in Small Enterprises: A Practical Implementation Guidance (Matos et al.)
Information and Data Quality States Model to Support Process-aware Information Systems (Junior et al.)
Identifying Patient Demand New Patterns in Emergency Departments a Multiple Case Study: A Forecasting Approach (Assad et al.)
Visual Management in Healthcare: A Systematic Literature Review of Main Practices and Applications (Zani et al.)
Systematic Review on the Use of Eggshell: Reflections about Circular Economy (Bonato et al.)
The Importance of Measurement Uncertainty Analysis on Statistical Quality Control (Couto et al.)
Evaluation Model for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Food Industry (Trojan et al.)
Logistics Regression Model for Predicting Cost Performance According to Benefits Management Effort in New Product Development Projects (da Silva et al.)
Extraction of Soluble Solids of Soursop (Annona Muricata) and Marolo (Annona Crassiflora Mart.) Seeds Using Different Solvents and Processes (Menezes et al.)
Framework Proposal to Organize Sustainability Strategies Towards a Transition to the Circular Economy (Bacovis et al.)
Application of Data Reconciliation in a Water Balance as a Tool for Reducing Water Use at a Public University in Brazil (Costa et al.)
Disaster Response Assessment: The Case of the Civil Defense of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Pereira et al.)
Lean Demand Management: Application in a National Health Department (Souza et al.)
Simultaneous Data Reconciliation and Parameter Estimation Applied to a Heat Exchange Process (Kalid et al.)
Analysis of Greenhouse Gases and Atmospheric Pollutants Emissions By Helicopters in the Oil and Gas Industry (Mendes et al.)
Study of the Use of Data Mining in Modeling Non-Standard Processing in a Higher Education Institution (Maia et al.)
Process Mining Classification with a Weightless Neural Network (Barbastefano et al.)
Quantitative Approaches for Identification of Indicators and their Relationships in Performance Measurement Systems: A Literature Review (da Silva Ramos et al.)
Use of DMAIC and Lean Six Sigma to Reduce Body Defects in an Automotive Factory (de Siqueira)
PROMETHEE-SAPEVO-M1 a Hybrid Modeling Proposal: Multicriteria Evaluation of Drones for Use in Naval Warfare (Moreira et al.)
Application of Statistical Process Control in Painting Office Supplies (da Silva Fernandes et al.)
The Influence of Economic Context on the Relationship Between Manufacturing Strategy, Practices and Performance (Gambi et al.)
A System Thinking Approach for Social and Environmental Risk in Supply Chains (de Oliveira et al.)
A Comparative Study of the Influence of Organizational Culture on Performance (Gambi et al.)
Work Ability Index (WAI) and Quality of Life at Work (QLW) in the Context of Occupational Accidents: A Survey with Construction Workers (Galati et al.)
Purchase System for People with Reduced Mobility: Promoting Equity Idealized by Society 5.0 (Garcez et al.)
Application of the Proknow-C Methodology in the Search for Literature about Energy Management Audit based on International Standards (Vieira et al.)
Stakeholders Assessment for Risk Management into the Wind Power Supply Chain (Troche-Escobar et al.)
Working in the 4.0 Era: An Ontology for Competence Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Francisco et al.)
Autonomous Inventory and Capacity Management in an Omnichannel Retailing Scenario: A Review (Linhares et al.)
Measuring the Effectiveness of a Scrum Training Session using Psychological States of Flow (Nagai et al.)
Pedestrian Evacuation Plan on Fire Situations at a University (Enami et al.)
Economic Production Quantity Model Considering Items with Distinct Levels of Imperfection (Miranda et al.)
Food Security: Location of Assistance Entities in Poverty Zones (Assumpção et al.)
Emotions and the Purchase Decision Processes of Green Products: An Exploratory Study with Consumption Emotions Set Scale (CES) (Kolling et al.)
Prioritization of Critical Factors for the Improvement in the Visual Daily Shop Floor Management in Manufacturing using AHP – A Case Study Pereira et al.)
Economic Production Quantity for Products with Deterioration and Shortage Under Advanced-Cash-Credit Payment Scheme (Londe et al.)
Sustainable by Accident: An Analysis of the Development of the Brazilian Electricity Sector (Botelho et al.)
Success Critical Factors on the Civil Construction Projects Management, Utilizing Artificial Neural Networks (Erpen et al.)
Production Planning and Control in Industry 4.0: Maintenance of Breakdown of the Principles and Fundamentals (Pissardini et al.)
Lean Office in the Monitoring of Public Building Works (Dal´Bosco et al.)
Selecting Distribution Centers in Disaster Management by Network Analysis and Composition of Probabilistic Preferences (Gavião et al.)
Development of Indicators for Monitoring the Regulatory Compliance of Static Equipment in Industrial Plants: An Empirical Study in the Oil and Gas Sector(Caiado et al.)
Navy Worship Selection and Multicriteria Analysis: The THOR Method Supporting Decision Making (Tenório et al.)
1. Applied Bayesian Modeling for Assessment of Interpretation Uncertainty in Spatial Domain
2. Computing Robust Statistics via an EM Algorithm
3. Determining Risk Factors of Antenatal Care Attendance and its Frequency in Bangladesh: An Application of Count Regression Analysis
4. On Propensity Score Methodology
5. Asking Good Questions to Understand Voluntary Enrolments in Mathematics
PART II. Agricultural Statistics and Policy Analysis
6. Modeling for Prospect of Aman Rice Production in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh
7. Impacts and Determinants of Adoption in River-based Tilapia Cage Culture
8. Policy into Practice; Statistics the Forgotten Gatekeeper
9. Nutrient Loading in the River Systems around Major Cities in Bangladesh: a Quantitative Estimate with Consequences and Potential Recycling Options
10. Analysing Informal Milk Supply Chains Data to Identify Seasonal Occurrences of Antibiotic Residues
Part III. Data Science and Image Processing Statistics
11. Detection of Vegetation in Enviromental Repeat Photography: A New Algorithmic Approach in Data Science
12. Can Data Fusion increase the Performance of Action Detection in the Dark?
13. Data privacy and Security in the Cloud
14. Evaluating Faster-RCNN and YOLOv3 for Target Detection in Multi-sensor Data
15. Wavelet-based Quantile Density Function Estimation under Random Censorship
Part IV. Health Statistics and Social Policy
16. Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease among Elderly People in Different Communities
17. Finite Mixture Modelling Approach to Identify Factors Affecting Children ever Born for 15-49 Year Old Women in Asian Country
18. An Assessment of Influencing Factors for Motherhood During Childhood in Bangladesh Using Factor Analysis and Logistic Regression Methods
19. Effect of Women’s Education on Skilled Birth Attendants in South and South East Asia: A Cross-country assessment on Sustainable Development Goal 3.1
Part V. SMALL Area Estimation and Spatial Microsimulation
20. Estimation of Child Undernutrition at Disaggregated Administrative Tiers of a North-Eastern District of Bangladesh: An Application of Small Area Estimation Method
21. Using a Spatial Farm Microsimulation Model for Australia to Estimate the Impact of an External Shock on Farmer Incomes
Part VI. Business Analytics and Managements Policy Analysis
22. A tax benefit model for policy evaluation in Luxembourg: LuxTaxBen
23. Finding Significant Determinants and Impacts of Farm-Level Integrated Pest Management Practices Using Statistical Tools
24. Consumers Adoption Behavior Prediction through Technology Acceptance Model and Machine Learning Models
25. Shaping the Future of Multidimensional Project Management in Re-Tail Industry Using Statistical and Big-Data Theories
26. Technical Efficiency and Value Chain Analysis of Potato in a South-East Asian Country
27. Modelling and Analysis of Computer Experiments using a Simple Pendulum Model
Part I. Applied Statistics and Bayesian Modeling
1. Applied Bayesian Modeling for Assessment of Interpretation Uncertainty in Spatial Domain
2. Computing Robust Statistics via an EM Algorithm
Comparison of proposals of transformation of nominants into stimulants on the example of financial ratios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
Silhouette index as clustering evaluation tool
The Role of Discretization of Continuous Variables in SocioEconomic Classification Models on the Example of Logistic Regression Models and Artificial Neural Networks
Intuitionistic fuzzy synthetic measure for ordinal data
Improving Classification Accuracy of Ensemble Learning for Symbolic Data Trough Neural Networks’ Feature Extraction
Applications in Finance
Inequality restricted least squares (IRLS) model of real estate prices
Application of Hill estimator to assess extreme risks in the metals market
Segmentation of Enterprises on the Basis of Their Duration Using Survival Trees. Results of an Analysis for Legal Persons and Organizational Entities without Legal Personality in the Łódzkie Voivodship
Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction with the Use of the Logit Leaf Model
The impact of longevity on a valuation of long-term investments returns: the case of selected European countries
Applications in Economics.-Sustainable Development and Green Economy in the European Union Countries – statistical analysis
The review of indicators of data quality in intra-Community trade in goods. The choice of an indicator and its effect on the ranking of countries
Development of ICT in Poland in Comparison with the European Union Countries – Multivariate Statistical Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis in Causal Mediation Effects for TAM Model
Applications in Social Problems
Prentice-Williams-Peterson models in the assessment of the influence of the characteristics of the unemployed on the intensity of subsequent registrations in the labour office
Right-skewed distribution of features and the identification problem of the financial autonomy of local administrative units
Multi-Criteria Rankings with Interdependent Criteria: Case of EU Countries on Their Way to Healthy Lives and Well-Being
The comparison of income distributions for women and men in the European Union countries
Common stochastic mortality trends for multiple European populations
Impact of the selected factors on the men and women wages in Poland in 2014. The conjoint analysis application
Preface
Methods
Comparison of proposals of transformation of nominants into stimulants on the example of financial ratios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange
1. Computational Issues Of Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of The Skew-T Distribution And A Proposal For The Initialization Of Numerical Optimization - by Adelchi Azzalini (University of Padua, Italy) and Mahdi Salehi (University of Neyshabur, Iran)
2. Modelling Earthquakes: Characterizing Inter-Arrival Times And Magnitude - by Christophe Ley (Ghent University, Belgium) and Rosaria Simone (University of Naples Frederico II, Italy)
3. Multivariate Order Statistics Induced By Ordering Linear Combinations Of Components Of Multivariate Elliptical Random Vectors - by Ahad Jamalizadeh (Shahid Bahonar University, Iran), Roohollah Roozegar (Yasouj University, Iran), Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) and Mehrdad Naderi (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
4. Spatial Interpolation Of Extreme PM1 Values Using Copulas - by Alfred Stein, Fakhereh Alidoost and Vera van Zoest (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
5. Distributional Aspects Of The Condition Number From A Unified Complex Wishart Setting - by Johannes Ferreira and Andriëtte Bekker (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
6. Weighted Bivariate Pólya-Aeppli Type Ii Distributions - by Claire Geldenhuys and René Ehlers (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
7. On The Distribution Of Linear Combinations Of Chi-Square Random Variables - by Carlos A. Coelho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
8. Constructing Multivariate Distributions Using The Dirichlet As A Baseline - by Seite Makgai (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Mohammad Arashi (Shahrood University of Technology, Iran), Daan de Waal (University of the Free State), and Andriëtte Bekker (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
9. Evaluating Risk Measures Using The Normal Mean-Variance Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution - by Mehrdad Naderi (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Ahad Jamalizadeh (Shahid Bahonar University, Iran), Wan-Lun Wang (Feng Chia University, Taiwan), Tsung-I Lin (National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan)
10. On High-Dimensional Multivariate Bayesian Geostatistics - by Sudipto Banerjee (University of California, USA)
11. On Improving The Performance Of Logistic Regression Analysis Via Extreme Ranking - by Hani M. Samawi (Georgia Southern University, USA)
12. Optimal Sample Size Allocation For Multi-Level Stress Testing With Extreme Value Regression Under Time Censoring - by Ping Shing Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong),Hon Yiu So (University of Waterloo, Canada), Hon Keung Tony Ng (Southern Methodist University, USA) and Wei Gao (Northeast Normal University, China)
13. Robust Mixtures Of Scale Mixtures In The Exponential Family - by Frans Kanfer and Sollie Millard (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
14. Variable Selection Of Interval-Censored Failure Time Data - by Tony Sun (University of Missouri, USA)
15. On The Design Of A Platform Trial For The Treatment Of Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection By Fecal Microbiota Transplantation - by Christine H. Lee (Royal Jubilee Hospital, Canada), Dina Kao (University of Alberta, Canada), Theodore Steiner (University of Vancouver, Canada), Augustine Wigle (University of Guelph, Canada) and Peter T. Kim (University of Guelph, Canada)
16. Recent Advances In Bayesian Adaptive Designs And Applications - by J. Jack Lee (University of Texas, USA)
17. Generalizability Theory For Clinician-Rated Outcomes - by Joseph C. Cappelleri (Executive Director of Biostatistics, Pfizer Inc)
18. Simultaneous Variable Selection And Estimation In Generalized Semiparametric Mixed Effect Modeling Of Longitudinal Data - by Mozhgan Taavoni and Mohammad Arashi (Shahrood University of Technology, Iran)
19. Generalized Rayleigh-Exponential-Weibull Distribution and its Application to Modelling of Progressive Type-I Interval Censored Data - by Ding-Geng Chen (University of Pretoria) and Y. L. Lio (University of South Dakota)
20. Applications Of Spatial Statistics In Poverty Alleviation In China - by Yong Ge (State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, China)
21. Using Improved Robust Estimators In Semiparametric Models For High Dimensional Data - by Mahdi Roozbeh and Mina Norouzirad (Semnan University, Iran)
22. GMM marginal models with time dependent covariates - by Elsa Vazquez (Arizona State University) and Jeffrey R Wilson (Arizona State University)
1. Computational Issues Of Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of The Skew-T Distribution And A Proposal For The Initialization Of Numerical Optimization - by Adelchi Azzalini (University of Padua, Italy) and Mahdi Salehi (University of Neyshabur, Iran)
2. Modelling Earthquakes: Characterizing Inter-Arrival Times And Magnitude - by Christophe Ley (Ghent University, Belgium) and Rosaria Simone (University of Naples Frederico II, Italy)
3. Multivariate Order Statistics Induced By Ordering Linear Combinations Of Components Of Multivariate Elliptical Random Vectors - by Ahad Jamalizadeh (Shahid Bahonar University, Iran), Roohollah Roozegar (Yasouj University, Iran), Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (McMaster University, Canada) and Mehrdad Naderi (University of Pretoria, South Africa)