Flatness and continuity in the percentile clustering model

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(91)90039-TMaRDI QIDQ811455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. E. Zubov

Publication date 1991

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(91)90039-t

zbMATH Keywords

Cluster analysisconnectivityequivarianceflatnessisotonic functionL-cluster methodlattice of percentile functionsmonotonicitypercentile cluster methodtransformation of dissimilarity coefficientstransformations on sets of residuated maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Clustering in the social and behavioral sciences (91C20) Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology (92B10)

Review text

Cluster analysis is a process of classifying objects into subsets with similar properties. A cluster method can be interpreted as a transformation of dissimilarity coefficients characteristic for a given set of objects. In the present paper, dissimilarities are measured in a given lattice L and cluster methods are transformations on sets of residuated maps. An isotonic function \(f: P\to Q\) is residuated if there exists an isotonic function \(f^+: Q\to P\) such that \(f^+f(p)\geq p\) and \(ff^+(q)\geq q\). The system of such maps is denoted Res(P,Q). A transformation \(\Gamma\) from Res(M,L) to Res(N,L) is called an L-cluster method. In the case when L is the lattice of percentile functions \(\Gamma\) is called a percentile cluster method. Important properties of cluster methods are flatness, monotonicity, equivariance and connectivity. The main result of the paper is the fact that induced flat percentile cluster methods are monotone, equivariant and continuous.

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