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Publication Date:
January 2006
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1544-6115
DOI:
10.2202/1544-6115.1197

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A Generalized Clustering Problem, with Application to DNA Microarrays

Ilana Belitskaya-Levy

1New York University School of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics

Citation Information: Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages –, ISSN (Online) 1544-6115, DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1197, January 2006

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2006-01-06

We think of cluster analysis as class discovery. That is, we assume that there is an unknown mapping called clustering structure that assigns a class label to each observation, and the goal of cluster analysis is to estimate this clustering structure, that is, to estimate the number of clusters and cluster assignments. In traditional cluster analysis, it is assumed that such unknown mapping is unique. However, since the observations may cluster in more than one way depending on the variables used, it is natural to permit the existence of more than one clustering structure. This generalized clustering problem of estimating multiple clustering structures is the focus of this paper. We propose an algorithm for finding multiple clustering structures of observations which involves clustering both variables and observations. The number of clustering structures is determined by the number of variable clusters. The dissimilarity measure for clustering variables is based on nearest-neighbor graphs. The observations are clustered using weighted distances with weights determined by the clusters of the variables. The motivating application is to gene expression data.

Keywords: cluster analysis; multiple clustering; clustering on subsets of variables; dissimilarity measures; nearest neighbor graphs; dna microarrays; clustering algorithm

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