An OR Tool for Partitioning Datasets into Uniform Segments
- Authors
- Corporate Authors
- Defence R&D Canada - Centre for Operational Research and Analysis, Ottawa ON (CAN)
- Abstract
- This report describes an operational research tool for dividing a set of scalar values into categories or clusters without having to specify the number of clusters in advance. The method has a theoretical underpinning based on a statistical test for outliers of a uniform distribution derived by D.A. Darling in 1952. The problem arose in an operational research study for the Canadian Department of National Defence in which it was necessary to segment a set of 82 options into categories based on a numerical score. The theoretical background is described and examples are given to illustrate the methodology.g8070
- Keywords
- clustering;outliers;uniform distribution;ordered categories
- Report Number
- DRDC-CORA-TN-2009-052 — Technical Note
- Date of publication
- 01 Nov 2009
- Number of Pages
- 22
- DSTKIM No
- CA046267
- CANDIS No
- 807029
- Format(s):
- Electronic Document(PDF)
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