Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

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Studies in Classification, Data Analysis,

and Knowledge Organization

Managing Editors Editorial Board

H.-H. Bock, Aachen D. Baier, Cottbus

W. Gaul, Karlsruhe F. Critchley, Milton Keynes

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C. Weihs, Dortmund E. Diday, Paris

M. Greenacre, Barcelona C.N. Lauro, Naples J. Meulman, Leiden P. Monari, Bologna S. Nishisato, Toronto N. Ohsumi, Tokyo O. Opitz, Augsburg G. Ritter, Passau M. Schader, Mannheim

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Donatella Vicari

_{Akinori Okada}

Giancarlo Ragozini

_{Claus Weihs}

Editors

Analysis and Modeling

of Complex Data

in Behavioral

and Social Sciences

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Editors

Donatella Vicari

Department of Statistical Science University of Rome “La Sapienza” Rome

Italy

Giancarlo Ragozini

Department of Political Science University of Naples “Federico II” Naples

Italy

Akinori Okada

Graduate School of Management and Information Sciences Tama University

Tokyo Japan

Claus Weihs Fakultät Statistik

Technische Universität Dortmund Dortmund

Germany

ISSN 1431-8814

ISBN 978-3-319-06691-2 ISBN 978-3-319-06692-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06692-9

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Preface

The papers contained in this volume stem from contributions firstly presented at the joint international meeting JCS-CLADAG held in Anacapri (Capri Island, Italy) on September 3–4, 2012, where the Japanese Classification Society and the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society had a stimulating scientific discussion and exchange.

The conference focus was primarily on the Analysis and Modeling of Com-plex Data in Behavioral and Social Sciences, including theoretical developments, applications, and computational methods. The joint meeting aimed at enhancing the scientific cooperation between Italian and Japanese data analysts and at establishing new cooperation between members of the two societies.

The scientific program encompassed 93 presentations in 24 sessions, including keynote and specialized lectures as well as solicited and contributed session talks, where the contributions mainly from, but not limited to, the two societies established interesting exchanges and debates between Italian and Japanese data analysts. With over 130 attendees mainly from Italy and Japan, and also from other ten countries of the European Community and the USA and Australia, the conference represented a moment of discussion and exchange of knowledge.

After the conference, from the original presentations, a selection of 31 contribu-tions has been chosen after a double peer-review.

The volume presents theoretical developments, applications, and computational methods for the analysis and modeling in behavioral and social sciences, where data are usually complex to explore and investigate. The challenging proposals provide a connection between statistical methodology and social and psychological domain with particular attention to computational issues in order to address effectively complex data analysis problems.

We are also indebted to the Department of Political Science of Federico II, University of Naples, Italy which partially financially supported the publication of this volume. Moreover, we want to thank also the REPOS Project that partially supported the organization of the conference.

We are grateful to the referees for their active, careful, and constructive work which certainly stimulated and improved the scientific content of the contributions.

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Finally, a special thanks goes to the authors of the papers who are the real core of the volume for their direct contribution to new and interesting challenges.

Roma, Italy Donatella Vicari

Tokyo, Japan Akinori Okada

Napoli, Italy Giancarlo Ragozini

Dortmund, Germany Claus Weihs

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Contributors

Giada Adelfio Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Yasumasa Baba The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan

Antonio Balzanella Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Mediterranei, Seconda Uni-versitá di Napoli, Naples, Italy

Alessandro Barbiero Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Francesco Bartolucci Department of Economics, Finance and Statistics, Univer-sity of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Eric J. Beh School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

Giuseppe Boari Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

Mario Bolzan Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Andrea Bonanomi Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milano, Italy

Giuseppe Bove Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Roma, Italy

Paula Brito Fac. Economia & LIAAD INESC TEC, Univ. Porto, Porto, Portugal

Raffaella Calabrese Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Gabriele Cantaluppi Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

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Marcello Chiodi Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Livio Corain Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Antonino D’Alessandro Centro Nazionale Terremoti, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy

Valeria De Giuli Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Renato De Leone School of Science and Technology, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy

Giovanni De Luca University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy

Maria Rosaria D’Esposito Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy

Domenico De Stefano Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Marco Enea Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Pier Alda Ferrari Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Brunella Fiore Department of Sociology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Giuseppe Giordano Department of Economics and Statistics, Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Kuniyoshi Hayashi Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan

Irene L. Hudson School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Domenica Fioredistella Iezzi Tor Vergata University, Roma, Italy

Alfonso Iodice D’Enza Università di Cassino, Cassino (FR), Italy

Antonio Irpino Dip. di Scienze Politiche “J. Monnet”, Seconda Università di Napoli, Caserta, Italy

Fumio Ishioka School of Law, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan

Kei Kurakawa National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

Koji Kurihara Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan

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Tommaso Lando VŠB-Techn., University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Caterina Liberati DEMS, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Rosaria Lumino University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Dario Luzio Dipartimento di Scienza della Terra e del Mare, Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Giancarlo Manzi Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Meth-ods, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy

Paolo Mariani DEMS, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Marina Marino Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Mario Mastrangelo Sapienza University, Roma, Italy

Valentina Minnetti Department of Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Linda Moore Statistics New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

Marta Nai Ruscone Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

Michiko Nakano Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Hiromasa Ohba Joetsu University of Education, Joetsu, Japan

Akinori Okada Graduate School of Management and Information Sciences, Tama University, Tokyo, Japan

Silvia Angela Osmetti Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milano, Italy

Francesco Palumbo Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Marco Passarotti Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerche per la Computerizzazione dei Segni dell’Espressione, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy

Alessandra Petrucci Department of Statistics, Informatics, Applications, Univer-sity of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Antonella Plaia Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Aziendali e Statistiche, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Laura Prota University of Salerno, Fisciano (SA), Italy

Antonio Punzo University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Emanuela Raffinetti Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Giancarlo Ragozini Department of Political Sciences, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Bhargav Raman Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Lidia Rivoli Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Emilia Rocco Department of Statistics, Informatics, Applications, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Isabella Romeo Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Luigi Salmaso Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Concetta Scolorato University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Yuko Shimizu Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Kojiro Shojima National Center for University Entrance Examinations, Tokyo, Japan

Nadia Solaro Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Naoki Sugino Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

Hiroshi Suito Graduate School of Environmental and Life Science, Okayama University, Okayama City, Japan

Yuan Sun National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

Daniel Y. Sze Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

Cristina Tortora University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

Duy Tran School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia

Hiroyuki Tsurumi College of Business Administration, Yokohama National Uni-versity, Yokohama-shi, Japan

Takuya Ueda Department of Radiology, St. Luke’s International Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Michel Van de Velden Erasmus University of Rotterdam, PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Rosanna Verde Dip. di Scienze Politiche “J. Monnet”, Seconda Università di Napoli, Caserta, Italy

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Kenichi Yamakawa Yasuda Women’s University, Hiroshima, Japan

Nagayoshi Yamashita GMO Research, Tokyo, Japan

Paola Zappa Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e Strategie d’Impresa, Università Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

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