Analysis and Modeling of Complex Data in Behavioral and Social Sciences

Time-frequency Filtering for Seismic Waves Clustering.- Modeling Longitudinal Data by Latent Markov Models with Application to Educational and Psychological Measurement.- Clustering of Stratified Aggregated Data using the Aggregate Association Index: Analysis of New Zealand Voter Turnout (1893 - 1919).- Estimating a Rasch Model via Fuzzy Empirical Probability Functions.- Scale Reliability Evaluation for a-priori Clustered Data.- An Evaluation of Performance of Territorial Services Center (TSC) by a Nonparametric Combination Ranking Method. The IQuEL Italian Project.- A New Index for the Comparison of Different Measurement Scales.- Asymmetries in Organizational Structures.- A Generalized Additive Model for Binary Rare Events Data: an Application to Credit Defaults.- The Meaning of forma in Thomas Aquinas. Hierarchical Clustering from the Index Thomisticus Treebank.- The Estimation of the Parameters in Multi-Criteria Classification Problem: the Case of the Electre Tri Method.- Dynamic Clustering of Financial Assets.- A Comparison of metrics for the Assessment of Relational Similarities in Affiliation Networks.- Influence Diagnostics for Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data using Generalized Linear Mixed Models.- Social Networks as Symbolic Data.- Statistical Assessment for Risk Prediction of Endoleak Formation after TEVAR Based on Linear Discriminant Analysis.- Fuzzy c-means for Web Mining: The Italian Tourist Forum Case.- On Joint Dimension Reduction and Clustering of Categorical Data.- A SVM Applied Text Categorization of Academia-Industry Collaborative Research and Development Documents on the Web.- Dynamic Customer Satisfaction and Measure of Trajectories: a Banking Case.- The Analysis of Partnership Networks in Social Planning Processes.- Evaluating theEffect of New Brand by Asymmetric Multidimensional Scaling.- Statistical Characterization of the Virtual Water Trade Network.- A Pre-Specified Blockmodeling to Analyze Structural Dynamics in Innovation Networks.- The RCI as a Measure of Monotonic Dependence.- A Value Added Approach in Upper Secondary Schools of Lombardy by OECD-PISA 2009 Data.- Algorithmic-Type Imputation Techniques with Different Data Structures: Alternative Approaches in Comparison.- Changes in Japanese EFL Learners' Proficiency: An Application of Latent Rank Theory.- Robustness and Stability Analysis of Factor PD-Clustering on Large Social Data Sets.- A Box-plot and Outliers Detection Proposal for Histogram Data: New Tools for Data Stream Analysis.- Assessing Cooperation in Open Systems: an Empirical Test in Healthcare.