Research careers are typically envisioned as a single path in which a scientist starts as a
member of a team working under the guidance of one or more experienced scientists and, if …

This article describes the data collection and use of data for the computation of rankings
within RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). This encompasses the determination of …

Software teams are often asked to deliver new features within strict deadlines leading
developers to deliberately or inadvertently serve “not quite right code” compromising …

Archetypal analysis represents a set of observations as convex combinations of pure
patterns, or archetypes. The original geometric formulation of finding archetypes by …

The new concept archetypoids is introduced. Archetypoid analysis represents each
observation in a dataset as a mixture of actual observations in the dataset, which are pure …

We intend to understand the growing amount of sports performance data by finding extreme
data points, which makes human interpretation easier. In archetypoid analysis each datum is …

The development of powerful new 3D scanning techniques has enabled the generation of
large up-to-date anthropometric databases which provide highly valued data to improve the …

In this article, we propose several methodologies for handling missing or incomplete data in
archetype analysis (AA) and archetypoid analysis (ADA). AA seeks to find archetypes, which …

Working papers or preprints have become an important part in the scientific landscape. Such
papers present research before (potentially) being published in refereed journals. But is …

Archetypal analysis approximates data by means of mixtures of actual extreme cases
(archetypoids) or archetypes, which are a convex combination of cases in the data set …