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ArticleStatistica Sinica2018

Clustering in General Measurement Error Models.

Ya Su, Jill Reedy, Raymond J Carroll

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Article in Statistica Sinica, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Causal K-Means Clustering.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ya SuDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, 3143 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3143.
Jill ReedyEpidemiology and Genomics Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Raymond J CarrollDepartment of Statistics, Texas A&M University, 3143 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3143, and School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia.

Funding

Measurement Error, Nutrition, Physical Activity and CancerU01CA057030 · NCI · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · PI CARROLL, RAYMOND J. · 2015 to 2019
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA057030
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Peter G. Hall. It concerns a deceptively simple question: if one observes variables corrupted with measurement error of possibly very complex form, can one recreate asymptotically the clusters that would have been found had there been no measurement error? We show that the answer is yes, and that the solution is surprisingly simple and general. The method itself is to simulate, by computer, realizations with the same distribution as that of the true variables, and then to apply clustering to these realizations. Technically, we show that if one uses K-means clustering or any other risk minimizing clustering, and a multivariate deconvolution device with certain smoothness and convergence properties, then, in the limit, the cluster means based on our method converge to the same cluster means as if there is no measurement error. Along with the method and its technical justification, we analyze two important nutrition data sets, finding patterns that make sense nutritionally.

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ClusteringDeconvolutionK-meansMeasurement errorMixtures of distributions

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PMID30636855
PMCPMC6329467

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