Uncertainty measures and hierarchical classification

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Authors Carlo Bertoluzza, Sergio de Simoni

Publication date 19 January 2005

zbMATH Keywords

hierarchical classificationuncertainty measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

Review text

The authors extend, and in some sense unify, two methods of hierarchical (or bottom-up) classification due to Aggarwal and to \textit{G. N. Lance} and \textit{W. T. Williams} [see Stat. Math. Digital Comput. 269--295 (1977; Zbl 0398.62050)]. The first one uses the Shannon entropy to measure how much information is lost in the aggregation procedure; the second one uses the same entropy to evaluate the similarity between two elements or between two groups of elements. For generalization, the authors use the Forte and Kampe de Feriet axiomatic theory in which a general definition of uncertainty measures is given. In this context the authors find conditions on the uncertainties which allow to construct the hierarchical classification procedure. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1051.68019].

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