Most methods of multivariate analysis rely on a measure of proximity between individual cases or samples to quantify inter-sample differences. The choice of this measure is fundamental to the method and its subsequent results. For example, when data are abundance counts of a set of species at...

Multivariable capacity index have been used frequently in the manufacturing industry and similar environments, since they provide quantitative measurements of the potential and performance of a process described by multiple quality characteristics susceptible to evaluation and correlated...

The book "Mathematics and Archaeology", consisting of 25 chapters by a range of international scholars in archaeology, will be published by Chapman & Hall in 2014. The present document, written as an invited Epilogue to the book, recounts the rediscovery of the book 275 years later by an...

Multivariable capacity index have been used frequently in the manufacturing industry and similar environments, since they provide quantitative measurements of the potential and performance of a process described by multiple quality characteristics susceptible to evaluation and correlated...

Classic linear regression models and their concomitant statistical designs assume a univariate response and white noise.By definition, white noise is normally, independently, and identically distributed with zero mean.This survey tries to answer the following questions: (i) How realistic are...