Monothetic divisive methods

Monothetic divisive clustering has largely been ignored, although there have been applications and development of a classification method closely related to monothetic divisive clustering. This classification is recursive partitioning, a type of decision tree method. 

Little has been reported on the use of hierarchical divisive methods for processing chemical data sets (other than the inclusion of the minimum-diameter method in some of the comparative studies mentioned above). Recursive partitioning, which is a supervised classification technique very closely related to monothetic divisive clustering, has, however, been used at the GlaxoSmithKline and Organon companies. 

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