Cluster analysis for symbolic interval data using linear regression method

• Main Author: Liu, Fei
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: uga 2016
• Subjects: Symbolic data analysis; Cluster analysis; Interval-valued data; Linear regression; Orthogonal regression; Measurement error model; McCormick; Reeves; Orca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/36237; http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/liu_fei_201605_phd

Symbolic data records are becoming a more powerful instrument to deal with large size data sets. Interval-valued data are a special type of symbolic data, for which each observation is a vector of intervals. The typical K-means methods for interval-valued data suppose the data separate to spherical...