Chapter 8. Dissimilarity and Matching

  1. Edwin Diday3,
  2. Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture4
  1. Floriana Esposito1,
  2. Donato Malerba1,
  3. Annalisa Appice2

Published Online: 28 JAN 2008

DOI: 10.1002/9780470723562.ch8

Book Title

Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Software

Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Software

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How to Cite

Esposito, F., Malerba, D. and Appice, A. (2008) Dissimilarity and Matching, in Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Software (eds E. Diday and M. Noirhomme-Fraiture), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470723562.ch8

Editor Information

  1. 3

    Université Paris IX-Dauphine, LISE-CEREMADE, Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris Cedex 16, France F-75775

  2. 4

    Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Faculté d'Informatique, Rue Grandgagnage, 21, Namur, Belgium, B-5000

Author Information

  1. 1

    Universita degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, v. Orabona, 4, Bari, Italy, I-70125

  2. 2

    Floriana Esposito Universita degli Studi di Bari, Dipartimento di Informatica, v. Orabona, 4, Bari, Italy, I-70125

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 28 JAN 2008
  2. Published Print: 18 JAN 2007

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470018835

Online ISBN: 9780470723562

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Keywords:

  • set-valued and modal variables;
  • dissimilarity measures (DISS module) and matching functions (MATCH module);
  • dissimilarity measures computation;
  • two-dimensional scatterplots and line graphs;
  • set-valued or probabilistic symbolic variables;
  • dissimilarity and matching method;
  • componentwise dissimilarities;
  • convex likelihood-ratio expectations;
  • variation distance, Manhattan distance and Hamming distance;
  • normalized dissimilarity measure

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Input data

  • Dissimilarity measures

  • Output of DISS and its visualization

  • An Application of DISS

  • The matching functions

  • Output of MATCH

  • An Application of the MATCH Module

  • References

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