Advances in Data Analysis

I Data Mining and Text Mining.- Assessing the Stability of Supplementary Elements on Principal Axes Maps Through Bootstrap Resampling. Contribution to Interpretation in Textual Analysis.- A Doubly Projected Analysis for Lexical Tables.- Analysis of a Mixture of Closed and Open-Ended Questions in the Case of a Multilingual Survey.- Number of Frequent Patterns in Random Databases.- II Information Theory and Statistical Applications.- Measures of Divergence in Model Selection.- High Leverage Points and Outliers in Generalized Linear Models for Ordinal Data.- On a Minimization Problem Involving Divergences and Its Applications.- III Asymptotic Behaviour of Stochastic Processes and Random Fields.- Remarks on Stochastic Models Under Consideration.- New Invariance Principles for Critical Branching Process in Random Environment.- Gaussian Approximation for Multichannel Queueing Systems.- Stochastic Insurance Models, Their Optimality and Stability.- Central Limit Theorem for Random Fieldsand Applications.- A Berry #x2013; Esseen Type Estimate for Dependent Systems on Transitive Graphs.- Critical and Subcritical Branching Symmetric Random Walks on -Dimensional Lattices.- IV Bioinformatics and Markov Chains.- Finite Markov Chain Embedding for the Exact Distribution of Patterns in a Set of Random Sequences.- On the Convergence of the Discrete-Time Homogeneous Markov Chain.- V Life Table Data, Survival Analysis and Risk in Household Insurance.- Comparing the Gompertz-Type Models with a First Passage Time Density Model.- A Comparison of Recent Procedures in Weibull Mixture Testing.- Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling of Geographic Dependence of Risk in Household Insurance.- VI Neural Networks and Self-Organizing Maps.- The FCN Framework: Development and Applications.- On the Use of Self-Organising Maps to Analyse Spectral Data.- Neuro-Fuzzy Versus Traditional Models for Forecasting Wind Energy Production.- VII Parametric and Non-parametric Statistics.- Nonparametric Comparison of