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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS-REVUE CANADIENNE DE STATISTIQUE
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 367-382Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.2307/3315985
Keywords
cluster analysis; density estimates; level sets; number of modes; smoothed bootstrap; support estimation
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Hartigan (1975) defines the number q of clusters in a ed-variate statistical population as the number of connected components of the set {f > c}, where f denotes the underlying density function an R-d and c is a given constant. Some usual cluster algorithms treat q as an input which must be given in advance. The authors propose a method for estimating this parameter which is based on the computation of the number of connected components of an estimate of {f > c}. This set estimator is constructed as a union of balls with centres at an appropriate subsample which is selected via a nonparametric density estimator of f. The asymptotic behaviour of the proposed method is analyzed. A simulation study and an example with real data are also included.
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