Clustering Techniques

In relatively simple cases, in which only two or three variables are measured for each sample, the data can usually be examined visually and any clustering identified by eye. As the number of variates increases, however, this is rarely possible and many scatter plots, between all possible pairs of variates, would need to be produced to identify major clusters, and even then clusters could be missed. To address this problem, many numerical clustering techniques have been developed, and the techniques themselves have been classified. For our purposes the methods considered belong to one of the following types. 

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Pisani C 1993 Embedded-cluster techniques for the quantum-mechanical study of surface reactivity J. Mol. Catal. 82 229... 

We therefore use smooth density estimation techniques that are more reliable than the histogram estimates. To improve the reliability for rare amino acid pairs, we use clustering techniques that identify similar pairs that can be modeled by the same density. 

Two main groups of exploratory analysis may be identified representation techniques and clustering techniques. 

Clustering techniques are mostly based on the concept of similarity expressed through the definition of a metric (distances calculus rule) in... 

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There are five types of clustering techniques (Everitt, 1980 Romesburg, 1984)... 

Picosecond time regime kinetic studies of proton transfer are coming into vogue (28, 29, 30), particularly for intramolecular processes that can be very fast. Bound to play an increasingly important role in the elucidation of proton transfers are the gas phase ion-solvent cluster techniques that reveal dramatically the role played by solvent molecules in these reactions (M, 32). 

The bottleneck in utilizing Raman shifted rapidly from data acquisition to data interpretation. Visual differentiation works well when polymorph spectra are dramatically different or when reference samples are available for comparison, but is poorly suited for automation, for spectrally similar polymorphs, or when the form was previously unknown [231]. Spectral match techniques, such as are used in spectral libraries, help with automation, but can have trouble when the reference library is too small. Easily automated clustering techniques, such as hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) or PCA, group similar spectra and provide information on the degree of similarity within each group [223,230]. The techniques operate best on large data sets. As an alternative, researchers at Pfizer tested several different analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques, along with descriptive statistics, to identify different polymorphs from measurements of Raman... 

Median partitioning is another statistical method distinct from RR The development of this methodology was driven by the need to select representative subsets from very large compound pools. Hierarchical clustering techniques... 

Like other partitioning or clustering techniques (4), MP relies on the use of descriptors of molecular structure and properties (16,17) for the definition of... 

There are two main types of clustering techniques hierarchical and nonhierarchical. Hierarchical cluster analysis may follow either an agglomerative or a divisive scheme agglomerative techniques start with as many clusters as objects and, by means of repeated similarity-based fusion steps, they reach a final situation with a unique cluster containing all of the objects. Divisive methods follow exactly the opposite procedure they start from an all-inclusive cluster and then perform a number of consecutive partitions until there is a bijective correspondence between clusters and objects (see Fig. 2.12). In both cases, the number of clusters is defined by the similarity level selected. 

Display methods (EP, NLM) can be considered as clustering techniques, when no apriori information is given about the subdivision of the dataset into categories. However, with the name of cluster analysis, we will denote the techniques working with the whole multivariate information in the following way. 

Sometimes, in the field of food chemistry, display methods have been used to detect clusters, while clustering techniques have been u to confirm the subdivision into categories, and then as classification methods. 

So, clustering techniques have been used for classification. Piepponen et al. applied a hierarchical cluster analysis (CLUSTAN) to the classification of food oils (groundnut, soya, sunflower and maize) by their fatty acid composition. The dendrogram of the distances shows four weU-separated clusters. Some suspect commercial samples of sunflower oil fall near the cluster of soya oils, so far from the clainud class that they cannot be consider i genuine. 

The second step of the calculation involves the treatment of dynamic correlation effects, which can be approached by many-body perturbation theory (62) or configuration interaction (63). Multireference coupled-cluster techniques have been developed (64—66) but they are computationally far more demanding and still not established as standard methods. At this point, we will only focus on configuration interaction approaches. What is done in these approaches is to regard the entire zeroth-order wavefunc-tion Tj) or its constituent parts double excitations relative to these reference functions. This produces a set of excited CSFs ( Q) that are used as expansion space for the configuration interaction (Cl) procedure. The resulting wavefunction may be written as... 

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