Symbolic Objects and Symbolic Data Analysis
Héctor Oscar Nigro, Sandra Elizabeth González Císaro · IGI Global eBooks · 2005
Today’s technology allows storing vast quantities of information from different sources in nature. This information has missing values, nulls, internal variation, taxonomies, and rules. We need a new type of data that allow us to represent the complexity of reality, maintaining the internal variation and structure (Bock & Diday, 2000; Diday, 2002, 2003).