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Zusatztext This is the first comprehensive text on the topic, and will undoubtedly prove invaluable to many researchers. Informationen zum Autor John C Gower is on the Editorial board of Journal of Classification and of The Mathematical Scientist. He is a past President of the International Federation of Classification Societies, a past President of the British Region of the International Biometric society, and a past Honorary Secretary of the Royal Statistical Society.Garmt B Dijksterhuis is on the Editorial board of Food Quality and Preference and is the Chairman of Sensometric Society. Klappentext Procrustean methods are used to transform one set of data to represent another set of data as closely as possible. The name derived from the Greek myth where Procrustes invited passers-by in for a pleasant meal and a night's rest on a magical bed that would exactly fit any guest. He then either stretched the guest on a rack or cut off their legs to make them fit perfectly into the bed. Theseus turned the tables on Procrustes, fatally adjusting him to fit his own bed. The text is the first systematic overview of Procrustean methods in one volume, presenting a unifying Analysis of Variance framework for different matching methods and the development of statistical tests. Zusammenfassung This text is a systematic overview of Procrustean methods in one volume, presenting a unifying Analysis of Variance framework for different matching methods and the development of statistical tests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Contents 1: Introduction 2: Initial transformations 3: Two-set Procrustes problems: generalities 4: Orthogonal Procrustes problems 5: Projection Procrustes problems 6: Oblique Procrustes problems 7: Other two-sets Procrustes problems 8: Weighting, scaling and missing values 9: Generalised Procrustes problems 10: Analysis of variance framework 11: Incorporating information on variables 12: Accuracy and stability 13: Links with other methods 14: Some application areas, future and conclusion A1: Configurations A2: Rotations and reflections A3: Orthogonal projections A4: Oblique axes A5: A minimisation problem A6: Symmetric matrix products References ...
