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Recent Developments in Clustering and Classification Methods
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Recent Developments in Clustering and Classification Methods

A special issue of Stats (ISSN 2571-905X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 12987

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Marta Nai Ruscone

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Dipartimento di matematica, Università di Genova, 16100 Genova, Italy
Interests: clustering and classification; mixture models; multivariate dependence models with copula
Dr. Daniel Fernández

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Serra Húnter fellow, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya-BarcelonaTech, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: biostatistics; categorical data analysis; clustering and classification; computational statistics; mixture models; goodness-of-fit tests; statistical modeling

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce a Special Issue on “Recent Developments in Clustering and Classification Methods”. This Special Issue aims at providing a focus on state-of-the-art research in the field of statistical models and learning techniques in different areas of unsupervised and semi-supervised classification. 

Topics of particular interest may include but are not limited to:

  • Development of methodological innovations in all fields of classification and clustering, such as model-based clustering, mixture models for both continuous, discrete, and mixed data in one or two dimensions (co-clustering, biclustering), robust approaches for data classification, and clustering time series, among others;
  • New trends in visualization tools;
  • Development of new approaches for model selection and goodness-of-fit tests in clustering and classification methods;
  • New solutions for dealing with missing data in clustering and classification methods.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Sincerely,

Dr. Marta Nai Ruscone
Dr. Daniel Fernández
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • classification and clustering
  • graphical tools
  • goodness-of-fit test
  • mixture models
  • model selection
  • missing data
  • unsupervised and semi-supervised classification

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Spectral Clustering of Mixed-Type Data
by Felix Mbuga and Cristina Tortora
Stats 2022, 5(1), 1-11; https://doi.org/10.3390/stats5010001 - 23 Dec 2021
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Cluster analysis seeks to assign objects with similar characteristics into groups called clusters so that objects within a group are similar to each other and dissimilar to objects in other groups. Spectral clustering has been shown to perform well in different scenarios on [...] Read more.
Cluster analysis seeks to assign objects with similar characteristics into groups called clusters so that objects within a group are similar to each other and dissimilar to objects in other groups. Spectral clustering has been shown to perform well in different scenarios on continuous data: it can detect convex and non-convex clusters, and can detect overlapping clusters. However, the constraint on continuous data can be limiting in real applications where data are often of mixed-type, i.e., data that contains both continuous and categorical features. This paper looks at extending spectral clustering to mixed-type data. The new method replaces the Euclidean-based similarity distance used in conventional spectral clustering with different dissimilarity measures for continuous and categorical variables. A global dissimilarity measure is than computed using a weighted sum, and a Gaussian kernel is used to convert the dissimilarity matrix into a similarity matrix. The new method includes an automatic tuning of the variable weight and kernel parameter. The performance of spectral clustering in different scenarios is compared with that of two state-of-the-art mixed-type data clustering methods, k-prototypes and KAMILA, using several simulated and real data sets. Full article
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Incorporating Clustering Techniques into GAMLSS
by Thiago G. Ramires, Luiz R. Nakamura, Ana J. Righetto, Andréa C. Konrath and Carlos A. B. Pereira
Stats 2021, 4(4), 916-930; https://doi.org/10.3390/stats4040053 - 12 Nov 2021
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A method for statistical analysis of multimodal and/or highly distorted data is presented. The new methodology combines different clustering methods with the GAMLSS (generalized additive models for location, scale, and shape) framework, and is therefore called c-GAMLSS, for “clustering GAMLSS. ” In this [...] Read more.
A method for statistical analysis of multimodal and/or highly distorted data is presented. The new methodology combines different clustering methods with the GAMLSS (generalized additive models for location, scale, and shape) framework, and is therefore called c-GAMLSS, for “clustering GAMLSS. ” In this new extended structure, a latent variable (cluster) is created to explain the response-variable (target). Any and all parameters of the distribution for the response variable can also be modeled by functions of the new covariate added to other available resources (features). The method of selecting resources to be used is carried out in stages, a step-based method. A simulation study considering multiple scenarios is presented to compare the c-GAMLSS method with existing Gaussian mixture models. We show by means of four different data applications that in cases where other authentic explanatory variables are or are not available, the c-GAMLSS structure outperforms mixture models, some recently developed complex distributions, cluster-weighted models, and a mixture-of-experts model. Even though we use simple distributions in our examples, other more sophisticated distributions can be used to explain the response variable. Full article
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Refined Mode-Clustering via the Gradient of Slope
by Kunhui Zhang and Yen-Chi Chen
Stats 2021, 4(2), 486-508; https://doi.org/10.3390/stats4020030 - 1 Jun 2021
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In this paper, we propose a new clustering method inspired by mode-clustering that not only finds clusters, but also assigns each cluster with an attribute label. Clusters obtained from our method show connectivity of the underlying distribution. We also design a local two-sample [...] Read more.
In this paper, we propose a new clustering method inspired by mode-clustering that not only finds clusters, but also assigns each cluster with an attribute label. Clusters obtained from our method show connectivity of the underlying distribution. We also design a local two-sample test based on the clustering result that has more power than a conventional method. We apply our method to the Astronomy and GvHD data and show that our method finds meaningful clusters. We also derive the statistical and computational theory of our method. Full article
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Unsupervised Feature Selection for Histogram-Valued Symbolic Data Using Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering
by Manabu Ichino, Kadri Umbleja and Hiroyuki Yaguchi
Stats 2021, 4(2), 359-384; https://doi.org/10.3390/stats4020024 - 18 May 2021
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This paper presents an unsupervised feature selection method for multi-dimensional histogram-valued data. We define a multi-role measure, called the compactness, based on the concept size of given objects and/or clusters described using a fixed number of equal probability bin-rectangles. In each step of [...] Read more.
This paper presents an unsupervised feature selection method for multi-dimensional histogram-valued data. We define a multi-role measure, called the compactness, based on the concept size of given objects and/or clusters described using a fixed number of equal probability bin-rectangles. In each step of clustering, we agglomerate objects and/or clusters so as to minimize the compactness for the generated cluster. This means that the compactness plays the role of a similarity measure between objects and/or clusters to be merged. Minimizing the compactness is equivalent to maximizing the dis-similarity of the generated cluster, i.e., concept, against the whole concept in each step. In this sense, the compactness plays the role of cluster quality. We also show that the average compactness of each feature with respect to objects and/or clusters in several clustering steps is useful as a feature effectiveness criterion. Features having small average compactness are mutually covariate and are able to detect a geometrically thin structure embedded in the given multi-dimensional histogram-valued data. We obtain thorough understandings of the given data via visualization using dendrograms and scatter diagrams with respect to the selected informative features. We illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method by using an artificial data set and real histogram-valued data sets. Full article
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