Classification and Data Analysis: Theory and Applications

Preface.- Methods.- Comparison of proposals of transformation of nominants into stimulants on the example of financial ratios of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.- Silhouette index as clustering evaluation tool.- The Role of Discretization of Continuous Variables in SocioEconomic Classification Models on the Example of Logistic Regression Models and Artificial Neural Networks.- Intuitionistic fuzzy synthetic measure for ordinal data.- Improving Classification Accuracy of Ensemble Learning for Symbolic Data Trough Neural Networks' Feature Extraction.- Applications in Finance.- Inequality restricted least squares (IRLS) model of real estate prices.- Application of Hill estimator to assess extreme risks in the metals market.- Segmentation of Enterprises on the Basis of Their Duration Using Survival Trees. Results of an Analysis for Legal Persons and Organizational Entities without Legal Personality in the Lódzkie Voivodship.- Corporate Bankruptcy Prediction with the Use of the Logit Leaf Model.- The impact of longevity on a valuation of long-term investments returns: the case of selected European countries.- Applications in Economics.-Sustainable Development and Green Economy in the European Union Countries - statistical analysis.- The review of indicators of data quality in intra-Community trade in goods. The choice of an indicator and its effect on the ranking of countries.- Development of ICT in Poland in Comparison with the European Union Countries - Multivariate Statistical Analysis.- Sensitivity Analysis in Causal Mediation Effects for TAM Model.- Applications in Social Problems.- Prentice-Williams-Peterson models in the assessment of the influence of the characteristics of the unemployed on the intensity of subsequent registrations in the labour office.- Right-skewed distribution of features and the identification problem of the financial autonomy of local administrative units.- Multi-Criteria Rankings with Interdependent Criteria: Case of EU Countries on Their Way to Healthy Lives and Well-Being.- The comparison of income distributions for women and men in the European Union countries.- Common stochastic mortality trends for multiple European populations.- Impact of the selected factors on the men and women wages in Poland in 2014. The conjoint analysis application.