Covers everything readers need to know about clustering methodology for symbolic data—including new methods and headings—while providing a focus on multi-valued list data, interval data and histogram data This book presents all of the latest developments in the field of clustering methodology for symbolic data—paying special attention to the classification methodology for multi-valued list, interval-valued and histogram-valued data methodology, along with numerous worked examples. The book also offers an expansive discussion of data management techniques showing how to manage the large complex dataset into more manageable datasets ready for analyses. Filled with examples, tables, figures, and case studies, Clustering Methodology for Symbolic Data begins by offering chapters on data management, distance measures, general clustering techniques, partitioning, divisive clustering, and agglomerative and pyramid clustering.  Provides new classification methodologies for histogram valued data reaching across many fields in data science Demonstrates how to manage a large complex dataset into manageable datasets ready for analysis Features very large contemporary datasets such as multi-valued list data, interval-valued data, and histogram-valued data Considers classification models by dynamical clustering Features a supporting website hosting relevant data sets  Clustering Methodology for Symbolic Data will appeal to practitioners of symbolic data analysis, such as statisticians and economists within the public sectors. It will also be of interest to postgraduate students of, and researchers within, web mining, text mining and bioengineering.

Table of Contents:
1 Introduction 1 2 Symbolic Data: Basics 7 2.1 Individuals, Classes, Observations, and Descriptions 8 2.2 Types of Symbolic Data 9 2.2.1 Multi-valued or Lists of Categorical Data 9 2.2.2 Modal Multi-valued Data 10 2.2.3 Interval Data 12 2.2.4 Histogram Data 13 2.2.5 Other Types of Symbolic Data 14 2.3 How do Symbolic Data Arise? 17 2.4 Descriptive Statistics 24 2.4.1 Sample Means 25 2.4.2 Sample Variances 26 2.4.3 Sample Covariance and Correlation 28 2.4.4 Histograms 31 2.5 Other Issues 38 Exercises 39 Appendix 41 3 Dissimilarity, Similarity, and Distance Measures 47 3.1 Some General Basic Definitions 47 3.2 Distance Measures: List or Multi-valued Data 55 3.2.1 Join and Meet Operators for Multi-valued List Data 55 3.2.2 A Simple Multi-valued Distance 56 3.2.3 Gowda–Diday Dissimilarity 58 3.2.4 Ichino–Yaguchi Distance 60 3.3 Distance Measures: Interval Data 62 3.3.1 Join and Meet Operators for Interval Data 62 3.3.2 Hausdorff Distance 63 3.3.3 Gowda–Diday Dissimilarity 68 3.3.4 Ichino–Yaguchi Distance 73 3.3.5 de Carvalho Extensisons of Ichino–Yaguchi Distances 76 3.4 Other Measures 79 Exercises 79 Appendix 82 4 Dissimilarity, Similarity, and Distance Measures: Modal Data 83 4.1 Dissimilarity/Distance Measures: Modal Multi-valued List Data 83 4.1.1 Union and Intersection Operators for Modal Multi-valued List Data 84 4.1.2 A Simple Modal Multi-valued List Distance 85 4.1.3 Extended Multi-valued List Gowda–Diday Dissimilarity 87 4.1.4 Extended Multi-valued List Ichino–Yaguchi Dissimilarity 90 4.2 Dissimilarity/Distance Measures: Histogram Data 93 4.2.1 Transformation of Histograms 94 4.2.2 Union and Intersection Operators for Histograms 98 4.2.3 Descriptive Statistics for Unions and Intersections 101 4.2.4 Extended Gowda–Diday Dissimilarity 104 4.2.5 Extended Ichino–Yaguchi Distance 108 4.2.6 Extended de Carvalho Distances 112 4.2.7 Cumulative Density Function Dissimilarities 115 4.2.8 Mallows’ Distance 117 Exercises 118 5 General Clustering Techniques 119 5.1 Brief Overview of Clustering 119 5.2 Partitioning 120 5.3 Hierarchies 125 5.4 Illustration 131 5.5 Other Issues 146 6 Partitioning Techniques 149 6.1 Basic Partitioning Concepts 150 6.2 Multi-valued List Observations 153 6.3 Interval-valued Data 159 6.4 Histogram Observations 169 6.5 Mixed-valued Observations 177 6.6 Mixture Distribution Methods 179 6.7 Cluster Representation 186 6.8 Other Issues 189 Exercises 191 Appendix 193 7 Divisive Hierarchical Clustering 197 7.1 Some Basics 197 7.1.1 Partitioning Criteria 197 7.1.2 Association Measures 200 7.2 Monothetic Methods 203 7.2.1 Modal Multi-valued Observations 205 7.2.2 Non-modal Multi-valued Observations 214 7.2.3 Interval-valued Observations 216 7.2.4 Histogram-valued Observations 225 7.3 Polythethic Methods 236 7.4 Stopping Rule R 250 7.5 Other Issues 257 Exercises 258 8 Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering 261 8.1 Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering 261 8.1.1 Some Basic Definitions 261 8.1.2 Multi-valued List Observations 266 8.1.3 Interval-valued Observations 269 8.1.4 Histogram-valued Observations 278 8.1.5 Mixed-valued Observations 281 8.1.6 Interval Observations with Rules 282 8.2 Pyramidal Clustering 289 8.2.1 Generality Degree 289 8.2.2 Pyramid Construction Based on Generality Degree 297 8.2.3 Pyramids from Dissimilarity Matrix 309 8.2.4 Other Issues 312 Exercises 313 Appendix 315 References 317 Index 331