Ckmeans.1d.dp

Optimal, Fast, and Reproducible Univariate Clustering

Fast, optimal, and reproducible univariate clustering by dynamic programming. Four problems are solved, including univariate k-means (Wang & Song 2011) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2011-015> (Song & Zhong 2020) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa613>, k-median, k-segments, and multi-channel weighted k-means. Dynamic programming is used to minimize the sum of (weighted) within-cluster distances using respective metrics. It substantially outperforms heuristic clustering in both efficiency and accuracy as the number of clusters increases. Multi-channel weighted k-means groups multiple univariate signals into k clusters. An auxiliary function generates histograms adaptive to patterns in data. This package provides a powerful set of tools for univariate data analysis with guaranteed optimality, efficiency, and reproducibility, useful for peak calling on temporal, spatial, and spectral data in addition to univariate clustering.

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