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 ..................................                         [log in to unmask]
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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