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SUBMITTER: Gaynor S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5959300 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Computational statistics & data analysis 20170623
Cluster analysis methods are used to identify homogeneous subgroups in a data set. In biomedical applications, one frequently applies cluster analysis in order to identify biologically interesting subgroups. In particular, one may wish to identify subgroups that are associated with a particular outcome of interest. Conventional clustering methods generally do not identify such subgroups, particularly when there are a large number of high-variance features in the data set. Conventional methods ma ...[more]