Estimating number of clusters based on a general similarity matrix with application to microarray data

Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Fallah, Shafagh ^a   Tritchler, David ^a,b,c   Beyene, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Eigenanalysis; Microarray; Scree plot; Segmented regression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 51149092376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15446115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1544-6115.1261     Document Type: Article

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