Clustering analysis of multivariate data: a weighted spatial ranks-based approach

DOI10.1155/2023/8849404MaRDI QIDQ6091228zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Mohammed H. Baragilly, Hend Gabr, Brian H. Willis

Publication date 24 November 2023

Published in Journal of Probability and Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/8849404

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX) Nonparametric inference (62Gxx) Multivariate analysis (62Hxx)

Review text

Summary: Determining the right number of clusters without any prior information about their numbers is a core problem in cluster analysis. In this paper, we propose a nonparametric clustering method based on different weighted spatial rank (WSR) functions. The main idea behind WSR is to define a dissimilarity measure locally based on a localized version of multivariate ranks. We consider a nonparametric Gaussian kernel weights function. We compare the performance of the method with other standard techniques and assess its misclassification rate. The method is completely data-driven, robust against distributional assumptions, and accurate for the purpose of intuitive visualization and can be used both to determine the number of clusters and assign each observation to its cluster.

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