Data cluster analysis: Abrupt transition

H. Falk and C.T. Falk

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1978, vol. 90, issue 2, 325-332

Abstract: A cluster analysis optimization technique for partitioning data is applied to a class of distributions which are functions of a single variable. It is shown that under certain realizable conditions an infinitesimal change in the data distribution causes a large, abrupt change in the location of the optimal boundary separating two data clusters. This abrupt (phase) transition is illustrated with an example.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(78)90118-8

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