opticskxi: OPTICS K-Xi Density-Based Clustering

Density-based clustering methods are well adapted to the clustering of high-dimensional data and enable the discovery of core groups of various shapes despite large amounts of noise. This package provides a novel density-based cluster extraction method, OPTICS k-Xi, and a framework to compare k-Xi models using distance-based metrics to investigate datasets with unknown number of clusters. The vignette first introduces density-based algorithms with simulated datasets, then presents and evaluates the k-Xi cluster extraction method. Finally, the models comparison framework is described and experimented on 2 genetic datasets to identify groups and their discriminating features. The k-Xi algorithm is a novel OPTICS cluster extraction method that specifies directly the number of clusters and does not require fine-tuning of the steepness parameter as the OPTICS Xi method. Combined with a framework that compares models with varying parameters, the OPTICS k-Xi method can identify groups in noisy datasets with unknown number of clusters. Results on summarized genetic data of 1,200 patients are in Charlon T. (2019) <doi:10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:161795>.

Version: 1.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: ggplot2, magrittr, rlang
Suggests: amap, dbscan, cowplot, fastICA, fpc, ggrepel, grid, grDevices, gtable, knitr, parallel, plyr, reshape2, stats, testthat, text2vec, utils
Published: 2024-12-09
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.opticskxi
Author: Thomas Charlon ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Thomas Charlon <charlon at protonmail.com>
BugReports: https://gitlab.com/thomaschln/opticskxi/-/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://gitlab.com/thomaschln/opticskxi
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: opticskxi results

Documentation:

Reference manual: opticskxi.pdf
Vignettes: OPTICS K-Xi Density-Based Clustering (source, R code)

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Package source: opticskxi_1.1.0.tar.gz
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