Hello, CLASS-L,

I'm writing to you in my capacity as Secretary of CSNA, the Classification 
Society of North America.
Several of our members have recently published books which will be of 
interest to persons specializing in Classification.
Below is the list, and attached is a flyer for one of them.

best  . . .
-- Stan Sclove
Sec'y/Treas., CSNA

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2005: May 19

Recent books by members of CSNA, the Classification Society of North America


Just reviewed in Technometrics:

Herbert K. Lee.
         BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS VIA NEURAL NETWORKS.
         Philadelphia:
         American Statistical Association and
         Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
         2004.
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Fionn Murtagh.
         CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS AND DATA CODING WITH JAVA AND R SOFTWARE.
          Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).    June, 2005.

Boris Mirkin.
         CLUSTERING FOR DATA MINING:  A DATA RECOVERY APPROACH.
         Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).  April, 2005.

Takayuki Saito and Hiroshi Yadohisa.
         DATA ANALYSIS OF ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES:
         ADVANCED APPROACHES IN COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS.
         Chapman & Hall/CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group).  January, 2005.
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                                   Stanley L. Sclove, Ph.D.
                                            Statistician
                          Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Information & Decision Sciences Dept  M/C 294 ........  ofc (312) 996-2681
College of Business Administration ..................            dept (312) 
996-2676
University of Illinois at Chicago 
.....................                   fax (312) 413-0385
601 S. Morgan Street 
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Chicago, IL 60607-7124, U.S.A. 
......................          www.uic.edu/~slsclove
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                             PLAN TO ATTEND THESE UPCOMING MEETINGS

                    CSNA, the CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
                            What:      CSNA 2005 / St. Louis
                            Who:       Joint Meeting with the  Interface 
Foundation
   Where (sessions):        Eric P Newman Education Center,
                                             Washington University Medical 
School, St. Louis, MO
                                             http://epnec.wustl.edu/
            Where (hotel):      The Parkway Hotel, two blocks from the 
EPNEC center
                                             http://www.theparkwayhotel.com/
                      When:          June 8 to 12, 2005 (Wednesday to Sunday)
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                        CSNA, the CLASSIFICATION SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA
                                               CSNA 2006 / Louisville
                             University of Louisville,  Louisville, Kentucky
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   IFCS, the INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF CLASSIFICATION SOCIETIES
                IFCS 2006        Ljubljana, Slovenia      July 25 to 
29,  2006
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