Combinatorial data analysis

In statistics, combinatorial data analysis (CDA) is the study of data sets where the order in which objects are arranged is important. CDA can be used either to determine how well a given combinatorial construct reflects the observed data, or to search for a suitable combinatorial construct that does fit the data.{{cite book | author=Lawrence J. Hubert | title=Assignment Methods in Combinatorial Data Analysis | publisher=Marcel Dekker | year=1987 | isbn=978-0824776176}}{{cite book | author=Lawrence J. Hubert | author2=Phipps Arabie | author3=Jacqueline Meulman | author3-link=Jacqueline Meulman | title=Combinatorial Data Analysis: Optimization by Dynamic Programming | publisher=SIAM | year=2001 | isbn=978-0898714784}}{{cite book |author1=Michael J Brusco |author2=Stephanie Stahl | title=Branch-and-bound Applications in Combinatorial Data Analysis | publisher=Springer | year=2005 | isbn=978-0387250373}}