Applied Modeling Techniques and Data Analysis 2

Preface

Data analysis as an area of importance has grown exponentially, especially during the past couple of decades. This can be attributed to a rapidly growing technology industry and the wide applicability of computational techniques, in conjunction with new advances in analytic tools. Modeling enables analysts to apply various statistical models to the data they are investigating, to identify relationships between variables, to make predictions about future sets of data, as well as to understand, interpret and visualize the extracted information more strategically. Many new research results have recently been developed and published and many more are developing and in progress at the present time. The topic is also widely presented at many international scientific conferences and workshops. This being the case, the need for the literature that addresses this is self-evident. This book includes the most recent advances on the topic. As a result, on one hand, it unifies in a single volume all new theoretical and methodological issues and, on the other, introduces new directions in the field of applied data analysis and modeling, which are expected to further grow the applicability of data analysis methods and modeling techniques.

This book is a collective work by a number of leading scientists, analysts, engineers, mathematicians and statisticians, who have been working on the front end of data analysis. The chapters included in this collective volume represent a cross-section ...