87839 - SEM. APPROACHES, THOUGHTS AND STRATEGY FOR CLUSTER ANALYSIS AND (OCCASIONALLY) FOR GENERAL DATA ANALYSIS

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Cinzia Viroli
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: SECS-S/01
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Statistical Sciences (cod. 9222)

Learning outcomes

This short course is held by Prof. Christian Hennig (UCL).

At the end of the course, the student acquires some fundamental theoretical and practical tools for classification and data analysis.  

Course contents

This course will give an "advanced introduction" to cluster analysis, focusing on understanding and decision making, and touching some more general issues in data analysis such as efficient visualisation and handling of mixed type data.

Readings/Bibliography

Teaching notes

Teaching methods

Lectures and a final lab tutorial

Assessment methods

It is required an active attendance

Office hours

See the website of Cinzia Viroli