A Method of Using Cluster Analysis to Study Statistical Dependence in Multivariate Data

  • Authors:
  • W. J. Borucki;D. H. Card;G. C. Lyle

  • Affiliations:
  • NASA Ames Research Center;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1975

Quantified Score

Hi-index 14.98

Visualization

Abstract

A technique is presented that uses both cluster analysis and a Monte Carlo significance test of clusters to discover associations between variables in multidimensional data. The method is applied to an example of a noisy function in three-dimensional space, to a sample from a mixture of three bivariate normal distributions, and to the well-known Fisher's Iris data.