The advanced maximum-linkage-algorithm (AMLA) is a derivative of the maximum-linkage-algorithm (MLA) given by Zerbst (2001). AMLA produces clusterings which have a good separation between the built classes. To reach the separation, centroids were calculated, which are the basis for...

Im Mess- und Prüfwesen bilden Ringversuche ein Fundament der Qualitätssicherung. Im Mittelpunkt dieses interlaboratoriellen Ringversuchs steht die Messqualität der teilnehmenden Labore. Zudem bietet der Ringversuch die Möglichkeit eines Erfahrungsaustausches, der in einer Verbesserung der...

Wie schon vor einem Jahr wurde die aktuelle Konjunkturprognose (Anfang 1999) in das RWI Klassifikationsschema eingeordnet. Danach liegt die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Zeitraums 1998-3 bis 2000-4 im Grenzbereich zwischen Aufschwung und oberem Wendepunkt. Vor einem Jahr war die damalige...

We consider the triangle test with replications, i.e. each assessor is asked repeatedly. A commonly used test statistic for this situation is the sum of all correct assessments, summed over all assessors. Several authors (e.g. o’Mahony, 1982, Brockhoff and Schlich, 1998) argue that the...

In the common nonparametric regression model y(i) = g(ti) + a (ti) ei , i=1….,n with i.i.d - noise and nonrepeatable design points ti we consider the problem of choosing an optimal design for the estimation of the regression function g. A minimax approach is adopted which searches for designs...

This paper applies linear discriminant analysis to classify West German business cycles from 1955 to 1994 into a four phase scheme (upswing, downswing, and upper/lower turning point phases). It describes the scheme as well as the selection of the classifying variables, and presents...

The minimum number of misclassifications achievable with affine hyper_ planes on a given set of labeled points is a key quantity in both statistics and computational learning theory. However, determining this quantity exactly is essentially NP_hard_ cf_ Höfgen, Simon and van Horn (1995.) Hence,...