Symbolic Data Analysis: Another look at the interaction of Data Mining and Statistics

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 281-295

  Brito, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; MODEL AUTOMOBILES;

ANALYSIS OF DATA; CLASSICAL STATISTICS; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONFLICTS OF INTEREST; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; INHERENT VARIABILITY; INTRINSIC VARIABILITIES; SYMBOLIC DATA ANALYSIS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84906487104     PISSN: 19424787     EISSN: 19424795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/widm.1133     Document Type: Article

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