Profile clusters in the WAIS–R standardization sample

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN A. SCHINKA ◽  
RODNEY D. VANDERPLOEG

In this study we applied clustering procedures to a subgroup of 341 participants from the WAIS–R standardization sample. These individuals were selected by virtue of their having full-scale profiles characterized by scatter of greater than 8 scaled scores. Using a hierarchical clustering algorithm, a multistage procedure was used to establish and evaluate a cluster solution. The subject selection and clustering methods were successful in revealing a set of 9 profile types characterized by unique profile shapes. All profiles were associated with FSIQs that were at least in the average range. Seven of the profiles were characterized by specific subtest strengths, only 1 with subtest weaknesses. Examination of the external correlates of profile membership revealed differences among profile groups for age, marital status, education, and occupation. Our findings suggest that variability in and across the 9 profile types in this sample reflects increased contributions of unique abilities in comparison to the influence of the underlying primary and secondary WAIS–R dimensions of cognitive ability. (JINS, 1997, 3, 120–127.)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yaohui Liu ◽  
Dong Liu ◽  
Fang Yu ◽  
Zhengming Ma

Clustering is widely used in data analysis, and density-based methods are developed rapidly in the recent 10 years. Although the state-of-art density peak clustering algorithms are efficient and can detect arbitrary shape clusters, they are nonsphere type of centroid-based methods essentially. In this paper, a novel local density hierarchical clustering algorithm based on reverse nearest neighbors, RNN-LDH, is proposed. By constructing and using a reverse nearest neighbor graph, the extended core regions are found out as initial clusters. Then, a new local density metric is defined to calculate the density of each object; meanwhile, the density hierarchical relationships among the objects are built according to their densities and neighbor relations. Finally, each unclustered object is classified to one of the initial clusters or noise. Results of experiments on synthetic and real data sets show that RNN-LDH outperforms the current clustering methods based on density peak or reverse nearest neighbors.


Author(s):  
Mohana Priya K ◽  
Pooja Ragavi S ◽  
Krishna Priya G

Clustering is the process of grouping objects into subsets that have meaning in the context of a particular problem. It does not rely on predefined classes. It is referred to as an unsupervised learning method because no information is provided about the "right answer" for any of the objects. Many clustering algorithms have been proposed and are used based on different applications. Sentence clustering is one of best clustering technique. Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm is applied for multiple levels for accuracy. For tagging purpose POS tagger, porter stemmer is used. WordNet dictionary is utilized for determining the similarity by invoking the Jiang Conrath and Cosine similarity measure. Grouping is performed with respect to the highest similarity measure value with a mean threshold. This paper incorporates many parameters for finding similarity between words. In order to identify the disambiguated words, the sense identification is performed for the adjectives and comparison is performed. semcor and machine learning datasets are employed. On comparing with previous results for WSD, our work has improvised a lot which gives a percentage of 91.2%


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 370
Author(s):  
Shuangsheng Wu ◽  
Jie Lin ◽  
Zhenyu Zhang ◽  
Yushu Yang

The fuzzy clustering algorithm has become a research hotspot in many fields because of its better clustering effect and data expression ability. However, little research focuses on the clustering of hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets (HFLTSs). To fill in the research gaps, we extend the data type of clustering to hesitant fuzzy linguistic information. A kind of hesitant fuzzy linguistic agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm is proposed. Furthermore, we propose a hesitant fuzzy linguistic Boole matrix clustering algorithm and compare the two clustering algorithms. The proposed clustering algorithms are applied in the field of judicial execution, which provides decision support for the executive judge to determine the focus of the investigation and the control. A clustering example verifies the clustering algorithm’s effectiveness in the context of hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision information.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1089
Author(s):  
Hailin Zheng ◽  
Qinyou Hu ◽  
Chun Yang ◽  
Jinhai Chen ◽  
Qiang Mei

Since the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the transportation of cargo by ship has been seriously impacted. In order to prevent and control maritime COVID-19 transmission, it is of great significance to track and predict ship sailing behavior. As the nodes of cargo ship transportation networks, ports of call can reflect the sailing behavior of the cargo ship. Accurate hierarchical division of ports of call can help to clarify the navigation law of ships with different ship types and scales. For typical cargo ships, ships with deadweight over 10,000 tonnages account for 95.77% of total deadweight, and 592,244 berthing ships’ records were mined from automatic identification system (AIS) from January to October 2020. Considering ship type and ship scale, port hierarchy classification models are constructed to divide these ports into three kinds of specialized ports, including bulk, container, and tanker ports. For all types of specialized ports (considering ship scale), port call probability for corresponding ship type is higher than other ships, positively correlated with the ship deadweight if port scale is bigger than ship scale, and negatively correlated with the ship deadweight if port scale is smaller than ship scale. Moreover, port call probability for its corresponding ship type is positively correlated with ship deadweight, while port call probability for other ship types is negatively correlated with ship deadweight. Results indicate that a specialized port hierarchical clustering algorithm can divide the hierarchical structure of typical cargo ship calling ports, and is an effective method to track the maritime transmission path of the COVID-19 pandemic.


2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akil Elkamel ◽  
Mariem Gzara ◽  
Hanêne Ben-Abdallah

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