A comparison of indices for identifying the number of clusters in hierarchical clustering: A study on cognition in schizophrenia patients

Md Atiqul Islam; Behrooz Z. Alizadeh; Edwin R. van den Heuvel; Richard Bruggeman; Wiepke Cahn; Lieuwe de Haan; René S. Kahn; Carin Meijer; Inez Myin-Germeys; Jim van Os; Durk Wiersma

doi:10.1080/23737484.2015.1103670

A comparison of indices for identifying the number of clusters in hierarchical clustering: A study on cognition in schizophrenia patients

Md Atiqul Islam (Corresponding author), Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Edwin R. van den Heuvel, Richard Bruggeman, Wiepke Cahn, Lieuwe de Haan, René S. Kahn, Carin Meijer, Inez Myin-Germeys, Jim van Os, Durk Wiersma

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Finding clusters in a complex dataset is not straightforward. Different indices were developed to quantify the number of clusters. Their performances were studied using unrealistic simulations, since they were considered at low dimensions. We investigated 14 indices for eight-dimensional data using simulations based on cognition measures. We focused on hierarchical clustering with Ward’s agglomerative technique. Results indicated that Duda and Hart, Hartigan and Gap/pc were best performing. They estimated the number of clusters within ±1 with high probabilities. Duda and Hart index was most consistent, while Gap/pc and WGap/pc together made a good distinction between single and multiple clusters.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	98-113
Number of pages	16
Journal	Communications in Statistics
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/23737484.2015.1103670
Publication status	Published - 3 Apr 2015

Keywords

Cluster analysis
cluster indices
hierarchical clustering
homogeneous subgroups
number of clusters

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Islam, M. A., Alizadeh, B. Z., van den Heuvel, E. R., Bruggeman, R., Cahn, W., de Haan, L., Kahn, R. S., Meijer, C., Myin-Germeys, I., van Os, J., & Wiersma, D. (2015). A comparison of indices for identifying the number of clusters in hierarchical clustering: A study on cognition in schizophrenia patients. Communications in Statistics, 1(2), 98-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/23737484.2015.1103670

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A comparison of indices for identifying the number of clusters in hierarchical clustering: A study on cognition in schizophrenia patients. / Islam, Md Atiqul (Corresponding author); Alizadeh, Behrooz Z.; van den Heuvel, Edwin R. et al.
In: Communications in Statistics, Vol. 1, No. 2, 03.04.2015, p. 98-113.

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