Data Analysis: The Ins And Outs Of Solving Real Problems (competitive Methods In Operations Research And Data Analysis)
by Jacques Janssen /
2013 / English / PDF
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This book is the result of the fourth International Symposium on
Data Analysis held on June 1985 at the Universite Libre de
Bruxelles with the help'of the European Institute for Advanced
Management. As the preceding ones, the organization of the
Symposium started with a call for real life problems from which an
International Com mittee selected six topics and asked for several
solutions. These topics are : I) Multivariate and longitudinal data
on growing children 2) Prehistoric assemblages and lithic artifacts
from a small We- european area 3) A comparison of results of
European elections 4) Classification of heterogeneous data related
to microcomputers 5) Group technology in production management 6)
Juvenile gelinquency They are covered by the S1X chapters of this
book in the following systematic way : a) firstly, a presentation
of the problem is given in the original context of the relevant
discipline (Medicine, archaelogy, politics, marketing, production
and education); b) Secondly, we present the solution found by
people who presents the problem; c) thirdly, we find the other
retained solutions among the most significative ones; v vi PREFACE
d) finally, a short conclusion compares the different approaches.
The diversity of the six selected problems clearly shows that Data
Analysis can be used for solving a wide variety of problems.
Moreover, the fact that each problem is approached by several dif
ferent way - at least two - also shows that, in general, a "univer
sal" statistical method does not exist.
This book is the result of the fourth International Symposium on
Data Analysis held on June 1985 at the Universite Libre de
Bruxelles with the help'of the European Institute for Advanced
Management. As the preceding ones, the organization of the
Symposium started with a call for real life problems from which an
International Com mittee selected six topics and asked for several
solutions. These topics are : I) Multivariate and longitudinal data
on growing children 2) Prehistoric assemblages and lithic artifacts
from a small We- european area 3) A comparison of results of
European elections 4) Classification of heterogeneous data related
to microcomputers 5) Group technology in production management 6)
Juvenile gelinquency They are covered by the S1X chapters of this
book in the following systematic way : a) firstly, a presentation
of the problem is given in the original context of the relevant
discipline (Medicine, archaelogy, politics, marketing, production
and education); b) Secondly, we present the solution found by
people who presents the problem; c) thirdly, we find the other
retained solutions among the most significative ones; v vi PREFACE
d) finally, a short conclusion compares the different approaches.
The diversity of the six selected problems clearly shows that Data
Analysis can be used for solving a wide variety of problems.
Moreover, the fact that each problem is approached by several dif
ferent way - at least two - also shows that, in general, a "univer
sal" statistical method does not exist.
