A Comparison of Clustering and Missing Data Methods for Health Sciences

Authors Ran Zhao, D. Needell, Christopher Johansen, Jerry L. Grenard

Publication date 22 April 2014

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Clustering in the social and behavioral sciences (91C20) Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08)

Abstract: In this paper, we compare and analyze clustering methods with missing data in health behavior research. In particular, we propose and analyze the use of compressive sensing's matrix completion along with spectral clustering to cluster health related data. The empirical tests and real data results show that these methods can outperform standard methods like LPA and FIML, in terms of lower misclassification rates in clustering and better matrix completion performance in missing data problems. According to our examination, a possible explanation of these improvements is that spectral clustering takes advantage of high data dimension and compressive sensing methods utilize the near-to-low-rank property of health data.

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