Many simulation studies comparing various methods of cluster analysis have been performed. In these studies, artificial data sets containing known clusters are produced using pseudo-random-number ...

Graphical representations of high-dimensional data sets are at the backbone of straightforward exploratory analysis and hypothesis generation. Within the life sciences, two of the most commonly used ...

In 2003, the Uganda Ministry of Health introduced the district league table for district health system performance assessment. The league table presents district performance against a number of input, ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) Three examples are provided of the use of methods of cluster-analysis. In one case the emphasis is on dividing individuals into a ...

To see how various clustering methods differ, you must examine a more difficult problem than that of the previous example. The following data set is similar to the first except that the three clusters ...