Many multivariate methods that are apparently distinct can be linked by introducing one or more parameters in their definition. Methods that can be linked in this way are correspondence analysis, unweighted or weighted logratio analysis (the latter also known as quot;spectral mappingquot;),...

The aim of this paper is comparison of multivariate statistical analysis and machine learning methods based on the model used for the measurement of current and forecasting of the future customer profitability. Modern customer profitability analysis shows that customer-company relationship is...

This manuscript is the author's response to: "Dochtermann, N.A. & Jenkins, S.H. Multivariate methods and small sample sizes, Ethology, 117, 95-101." and accompanies this paper: "Budaev, S. Using principal components and factor analysis in animal behaviour research: Caveats and guidelines....

The human capital development programs, partly financed by the means of European Social Fund, result in activities with the goal to equip students with skills not offered in traditional education and training system. Especially unique, so called soft skills seems to be necessary in contemporary...

Data revisions in macroeconomic time series are typically studied in isolation ignoring the joint behaviour of revisions across different series. This ignores (i) the possibility that early releases of some series may help forecast revisions in other series and (ii) the problems statistical...