There is significant literature which explores methods for clustering timeseries gene-expression data sets, such as the classical data set due to Spellman et al. (1998). For instance James and Hastie (2001) use linear or quadratic discriminant functions on fitted curves, while Bar-Joseph et al. (2003) using a similar approach, do the clustering based on the coefficients of the fitted splines. I...

in some quality control applications, the quality of a process or a product is described by the relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables, called a profile. moreover, in most practical applications, the qualitative characteristic of a product/service is vague, uncertain and linguistic and cannot be precisely stated. the purpose of this paper is to propose a ...