Enrichment Procedures for Soft Clusters: A Statistical Test and its Applications
R.D. Phillips1, M.S. Hossain1, L.T. Watson1,2, R.H. Wynne3, Naren Ramakrishnan1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.97, No.2, pp. 175-197, 2014, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2014.097.175
Abstract Clusters, typically mined by modeling locality of attribute spaces, are often evaluated for their ability to demonstrate ‘enrichment’ of categorical features. A cluster enrichment procedure evaluates the membership of a cluster for significant representation in predefined categories of interest. While classical enrichment procedures assume a hard clustering definition, this paper introduces a new statistical test that computes enrichments for soft clusters. Application of the new test to several scientific datasets is given. More >