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A new procedure to optimize the selection of groups in a classification tree: applications for ecological data

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Agglomerative cluster analyses encompass many techniques, which have been widely used in various fields of science. In biology, and specifically ecology, datasets; are generally highly variable and may contain outliers, which increase the difficulty to identify the number of clusters. Here we present a new criterion to determine statistically the optimal level of partition in a classification tree. The criterion robustness is tested against perturbated data (outliers) using an observation or variable with values randomly generated. The technique, called Random Simulation Test (RST), is tested on (1) the well-known Iris dataset (Fisher, R.A., 1936. The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems. Ann. Eugenic. 7, 179-188], (2) simulated data with predetermined numbers of clusters following Milligan and Cooper [Milligan, G.W, Cooper, M.C., 1985. An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set. Psychometrika SO, 159-1791 and finally (3) is applied on real copepod communities data previously analyzed in Beaugrand et al. (Beaugrand, G., Ibanez, F., Lindley, J.A., Reid, P.C., 2002. Diversity of calanoid copepods in the North Atlantic and adjacent seas: species associations and biogeography. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 232, 179-1951. The technique is compared to several standard techniques. RST performed generally better than existing algorithms on simulated data and proved to be especially efficient with highly variable datasets.

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hal-02660464 , version 1 (30-05-2020)

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Lionel Guidi, Frederic Ibanez, Vincent Calcagno, Grégory Beaugrand. A new procedure to optimize the selection of groups in a classification tree: applications for ecological data. Ecological Modelling, 2009, 220 (4), pp.451-461. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.11.006⟩. ⟨hal-02660464⟩
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