Future Directions for Transformation Analysis

Abstract

I believe the method of biorthogonal grids to be not a compromise with quantification, like those of chapter v, but a basic step toward the direct and automatic quantification of transformations. The only-test is by empirical exercise, in the analysis of sequences for seriation or prediction and in the statistical and substantive interpretation of the dilatation patterns extracted. Of course, a great many methodological questions remain to be explpred. Three classes are particularly crucial: statistics, computations, and interfacing with various applied problems.