rCOSA: a software package for clustering objects on subsets of attributes

DOI10.1007/S00357-017-9240-ZMaRDI QIDQ1695105zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maarten M. Kampert, Jacqueline Meulman, Jerome H. Friedman

Publication date 6 February 2018

Published in Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00259

zbMATH Keywords

feature selectionmultidimensional scalingproximitiesdissimilaritiesdistance-based clusteringclustering in Rmixtures of numeric and categorical variablesomics datasubsets of variablestargeted clustering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistics (62-04)

Abstract: exttt{rCOSA} is a software package interfaced to the R language. It implements statistical techniques for clustering objects on subsets of attributes in multivariate data. The main output of COSA is a dissimilarity matrix that one can subsequently analyze with a variety of proximity analysis methods. Our package extends the original COSA software (Friedman and Meulman, 2004) by adding functions for hierarchical clustering methods, least squares multidimensional scaling, partitional clustering, and data visualization. In the many publications that cite the COSA paper by Friedman and Meulman (2004), the COSA program is actually used only a small number of times. This can be attributed to the fact that thse original implementation is not very easy to install and use. Moreover, the available software is out-of-date. Here, we introduce an up-to-date software package and a clear guidance for this advanced technique. The software package and related links are available for free at: url{https://github.com/mkampert/rCOSA}

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• GitHub
• COSA
• orclus
• wskm
• OVWTRE
• sparcl
• R

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