Thinking by classes in data science: the symbolic data analysis paradigm

E Diday - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Data Science, considered as a science by itself, is in general terms, the extraction of
knowledge from data. Symbolic data analysis (SDA) gives a new way of thinking in Data …

Symbolic data analysis: another look at the interaction of data mining and statistics

P Brito - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Symbolic Data Analysis (SDA) provides a framework for the representation and analysis of
data that comprehends inherent variability. While in Data Mining and classical Statistics the …

Holt's exponential smoothing and neural network models for forecasting interval-valued time series

ALS Maia, FAT de Carvalho - International Journal of Forecasting, 2011 - Elsevier
Interval-valued time series are interval-valued data that are collected in a chronological
sequence over time. This paper introduces three approaches to forecasting interval-valued …

Structural health monitoring as a big-data problem

C Cremona, J Santos - Structural Engineering International, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has evolved over decades of continuous progress in
measuring, processing, collecting and storing massive amounts of data that can provide …

Forecasting interval time series using a fully complex-valued RBF neural network with DPSO and PSO algorithms

T Xiong, Y Bao, Z Hu, R Chiong - Information Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Interval time series prediction is one of the most challenging research topics in the field of
time series modeling and prediction. In view of the remarkable function approximation …

The climatic factors affecting dengue fever outbreaks in southern Taiwan: an application of symbolic data analysis

YH Lai - Biomedical engineering online, 2018 - Springer
Background Dengue fever is a leading cause of severe illness and hospitalization in
Taiwan. This study sought to elucidate the linkage between dengue fever incidence and …

Forecasting histogram time series with k-nearest neighbours methods

J Arroyo, C Maté - International Journal of Forecasting, 2009 - Elsevier
Histogram time series (HTS) describe situations where a distribution of values is available
for each instant of time. These situations usually arise when contemporaneous or temporal …

Threshold autoregressive models for interval-valued time series data

Y Sun, A Han, Y Hong, S Wang - Journal of Econometrics, 2018 - Elsevier
Modeling and forecasting symbolic data, especially interval-valued time series (ITS) data,
has received considerable attention in statistics and related fields. The core of available …

Far beyond the classical data models: symbolic data analysis

M Noirhomme‐Fraiture, P Brito - Statistical Analysis and Data …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces symbolic data analysis, explaining how it extends the classical data
models to take into account more complete and complex information. Several examples …

Dynamic clustering for interval data based on L 2 distance

FAT De Carvalho, P Brito, HH Bock - Computational Statistics, 2006 - Springer
This paper introduces a partitioning clustering method for objects described by interval data.
It follows the dynamic clustering approach and uses and L 2 distance. Particular emphasis is …