Euclidean consensus dendrograms and other classification structures

DOI10.1016/0025-5564(85)90021-5MaRDI QIDQ1060515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. P. Lefkovitch

Publication date 1985

Published in Mathematical Biosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-5564(85)90021-5

zbMATH Keywords

Admissibility criteriacombination of dendrogramsconsensus classification structurecoveringsembedding procedureEuclidean spacelinear-algebraic procedurespartitionsultrametric distances

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

Review text

By embedding the ultrametric distances between objects in a classification structure into a Euclidean space, two linear-algebraic procedures can be used to obtain a consensus among any combination of dendrograms, partitions, coverings, or more general arrangements of overlapping groups; the consensus has the property that the sum of the squared distances from the objects in each of the separate representations to their positions in the consensus is minimized in the Euclidean space. A consensus classification structure (usually a dendrogram) is obtained by reversing the embedding procedure. Admissibility criteria for a consensus are briefly considered.

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