clusterability

MaRDI QIDQ139933CRANFDO

Authors Zachariah Neville, Naomi C. Brownstein, Maya Ackerman, Andreas Adolfsson

Last update 16 March 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 2.0

Software version identifier 0.1.1.0, PACKAGES.rds, 0.1.0.0, 0.2.1.0, 0.2.2.0, 0.2.3.0

Description

Test for cluster tendency (clusterability) of a data set. The methods implemented - reducing the data set to a single dimension using principal component analysis or computing pairwise distances, and performing a multimodality test like the Dip Test or Silverman's Critical Bandwidth Test - are described in Adolfsson, Ackerman, and Brownstein (2019) <doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2018.10.026> and Laborde et al. (2023) <doi:10.1186/s12859-023-05210-6>. Such methods can inform whether clustering algorithms are appropriate for a data set.

Cites work

• Sparse clusterability: testing for cluster structure in high dimensions
• To cluster, or not to cluster: An analysis of clusterability methods

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