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11-07-2019

Note: t for Two (Clusters)

Author: Stanley L. Sclove

Published in: Journal of Classification | Issue 3/2019

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Abstract

The computation for cluster analysis is done by iterative algorithms. But here, a straightforward, non-iterative procedure is presented for clustering in the special case of one variable and two groups. The method is univariate but may reasonably be applied to multivariate datasets when the first principal component or a single factor explains much of the variation in the data. The t method is motivated by the fact that minimizing the within-groups sum of squares is equivalent to maximizing the between-groups sum of squares, and that Student’s t statistic measures the between-groups difference in means relative to within-groups variation. That is, the t statistic is the ratio of the difference in sample means, divided by the standard error of this difference. So, maximizing the t statistic is developed as a method for clustering univariate data into two clusters. In this situation, the t method gives the same results as the K-means algorithm. K-means tacitly assumes equality of variances; here, however, with t, equality of variances need not be assumed because separate variances may be used in computing t. The t method is applied to some datasets; the results are compared with those obtained by fitting mixtures of distributions.

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Metadata
Title
Note: t for Two (Clusters)
Author
Stanley L. Sclove
Publication date
11-07-2019
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Classification / Issue 3/2019
Print ISSN: 0176-4268
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1343
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-019-09335-3

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