Clustering problems (including the clustering of individuals into outcrossing populations, hybrid generations, full-sib families and selfing lines) have recently received much attention in population ...

Oxygen saturation measured in vivo in bronchial tumors during bronchoscopy in patients with lung cancer using differential path length spectroscopy (DPS) correlates with survival, stage of the disease ...

Clustering algorithms are used to generate clusters of elements having similar characteristics. Among the different groups of clustering algorithms, agglomerative algorithm is widely used in the ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 68, No. 3 (2006), pp. 457-476 (20 pages) The purpose of the paper is to present a new statistical approach to ...