This volume provides recent research results in data analysis classification and multivariate
statistics and highlights perspectives for new scientific developments within these areas.
Particular attention is devoted to methodological issues in clustering statistical modeling
and data mining. The volume also contains significant contributions to a wide range of
applications such as finance marketing and social sciences. The papers in this volume were
first presented at the 7th Conference of the Classification and Data Analysis Group (ClaDAG) of
the Italian Statistical Society held at the University of Catania Italy.
