Re: Handbook of Statistics

[Art Kendall]

The TWOSTEP procedure in SPSS cites Zhang, T., R. Ramakrishnon, and M. Livny. 1996. BIRCH: An efficient data clustering method for very large databases. In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data. Montreal, Canada: ACM. Chiu, T., D. Fang, J. Chen, Y. Wang, and C. Jeris. 2001. A Robust and Scalable Clustering Algorithm for Mixed Type Attributes in Large Database Environment. In: Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. San Francisco, CA: ACM. http://www.norusis.com/pdf/SPC_v13.pdf and the info under help tell more about this method. I can use both categorical and continuous variables and is practical on very large sets of data. Art shannon wrote: Hi Everyone I have been invited to write a chapter on cluster analysis for an upcoming handbook of statistics. Part of this chapter will focus on state-of-the-art methodology. I would welcome anyone's send me references to papers they think are ground-breaking and represent state-of-the-art cluster analysis methodology that should be part of this chapter. These can be your own papers or other peoples papers and can come from any area including applied data analysis, stats, math, computer science, etc. Thanks for any suggestions. Bill --- Biostatistics Consulting Center http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon/bcc_announcement.pdf "Statistics is not a discipline like physics, chemistry or biology where we study a subject to solve problems in the same subject. We study statistics with the main aim of solving problems in other disciplines." CR Rao William D. Shannon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine Division of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics Washington University School of Medicine Campus Box 8005, 660 S. Euclid St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: 314-454-8356 Fax: 314-454-5113 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l