Assessing variable importance in clustering: a new method based on unsupervised binary decision trees

DOI10.1007/s00180-018-0857-0zbMath1417.62168OpenAlexW2906948823MaRDI QIDQ1729346

Boyer Laurent, Ghattas Badih, Michel Pierre

Publication date: 27 February 2019

Published in: Computational Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02007388/file/Ghattas2019_Article_AssessingVariableImportanceInC.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

unsupervised learningdeviancevariable importanceCUBTvariables ranking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

Uses Software

• R
• ltm
• randomForest
• mcIRT
• wskm

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