Generation of Random Clusters with Specified Degree of Separation |
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Authors: | Weiliang Qiu Harry Joe |
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Institution: | (1) Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA;(2) Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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Abstract: | We propose a random cluster generation algorithm that has the desired features: (1) the population degree of separation between
clusters and the nearest neighboring clusters can be set to a specified value, based on a separation index; (2) no constraint
is imposed on the isolation among clusters in each dimension; (3) the covariance matrices correspond to different shapes,
diameters and orientations; (4) the full cluster structures generally could not be detected simply from pair-wise scatterplots
of variables; (5) noisy variables and outliers can be imposed to make the cluster structures harder to be recovered. This
algorithm is an improvement on the method used in Milligan (1985). |
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