New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis: Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society, Catania, September 9 - 11, 2009

The volume contains the extended revised versions of a selection of papers presented presented during the 7th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (ClaDAG) of the Italian Statistical Society, held at the University of Catania, Italy, in September 2009. The volume provides recent developments results in data analysis, classification and multivariate statistics and highlights perspectives of new scientific researches within such areas. Particular attention is devoted to methodological issues in clustering, statistical modeling and data mining. Further, many papers provide significant contributions in a wide range of applications like finance, marketing, social science and evaluation.