A Method to estimate the statistical confidence of cluster separation

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 57, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 103-110

  Gerstengarbe, F W ^a   Werner, P C ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUSTER SEPARATION; RANK SUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031428946     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00867981     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Forgy, E. W., 1965: Cluster analysis of multivariate data: efficiency versus interpretability of classifications (abstract). Biometrics, 21, 768.
2. Fovell, R. G., Fovell, M. C., 1993: Climate zones of the conterminous United States Defined using cluster analysis. Journal of Climate, 6, 2103-2135.
3. Gerstengarbe, F.-W., Werner, P. C., 1992: The time structure of extreme summers in Central Europe between 1901 and 1980. Meteor. Zeitschrift, N. F., 1, 285-289.
4. Milligan, G. W., Cooper, M. C., 1985: An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set. Psychometrika, 50, 159-179.
5. Steinhausen, D., Langer, K., 1977: Clusteranalyse - Einführung in Methoden und Verfahren der automatischen Klassifikation Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 411 pp.
6. Taubenheim, J., 1969: Statistische Auswertung geophysikalischer und meteorologischer Daten. Leipzig: Akad. Verlagsges. Geest & Portig, 386 pp.