Enrichment Procedures for Soft Clusters: A Statistical Test and its Applications

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2010-02-01
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Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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Clusters, typically mined by modeling locality of attribute spaces, are often evaluated for their ability to demonstrate ‘enrichment’ of categorical features. A cluster enrichment procedure evaluates the membership of a cluster for significant representation in pre-defined categories of interest. While classical enrichment procedures assume a hard clustering definition, in this paper we introduce a new statistical test that computes enrichments for soft clusters. We demonstrate an application of this test in refining and evaluating soft clusters for classification of remotely sensed images.

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Numerical analysis
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