Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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193
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Monday, August 10, 2015 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Biometrics Section
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Abstract #317971
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Title:
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K-Regression Clustering for Interval-Valued Data
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Author(s):
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Fei Liu* and Lynne Billard
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Companies:
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University of Georgia and University of Georgia
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Keywords:
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Symbolic data ;
Interval-valued data ;
K-regression ;
clustering
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Abstract:
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Symbolic data records are becoming a more powerful instrument to deal with large size data sets. Interval-valued data are a special type of symbolic data, for which each observation is a vector of intervals. The typical K-means methods for interval-valued data suppose the data separate to spherical clusters. It usually cannot converge to the correct clusters if the data are not clustering spherically. We propose a K-regression based clustering method for interval-valued data to recover a more complicated data structure. Assuming the response and predictor variables follow K different linear relationships, the data are initially split into K groups randomly. Then, we apply the new developed "symbolic variation" least squares to estimate the parameters of the K symbolic regressions. A data point is then relocated to its closest group in terms of its symbolic distance to the regression lines. This two-step dynamic clustering algorithm continues until the clusters are stable. Further, a plot of symbolic regression R-square versus the number of cluster K is used to determine the optimal number of clusters. The simulation shows that our method performs better than the K-means method.
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