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James-Stein shrinkage to improve k-means cluster analysis

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  • Gao, Jinxin
  • Hitchcock, David B.

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We study a general algorithm to improve the accuracy in cluster analysis that employs the James-Stein shrinkage effect in k-means clustering. We shrink the centroids of clusters toward the overall mean of all data using a James-Stein-type adjustment, and then the James-Stein shrinkage estimators act as the new centroids in the next clustering iteration until convergence. We compare the shrinkage results to the traditional k-means method. A Monte Carlo simulation shows that the magnitude of the improvement depends on the within-cluster variance and especially on the effective dimension of the covariance matrix. Using the Rand index, we demonstrate that accuracy increases significantly in simulated data and in a real data example.

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  • Gao, Jinxin & Hitchcock, David B., 2010. "James-Stein shrinkage to improve k-means cluster analysis," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 54(9), pages 2113-2127, September.
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