<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Hi Everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>John Hartigan will talk this Friday about:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>The mean shift method leads to clusters in which the mean of the data within a sphere <br></div><div>lies at the center of the sphere. The DP ( please suggest acronym) test for the existence <br></div><div>of a population mode within the sphere is based on the variance within the sphere being <br></div><div>small enough. The null hypothesis is taken from the spherical tree distribution -- a mixture <br></div><div>of uniform distributions over spheres which have the tree property that each pair of spheres <br></div><div>are disjoint, or one includes the other. The test is applied to the distribution of orbital radius <br></div><div>and inclination of 500000 asteroids of greater than 1km diameter -- some of which could crash <br></div><div>into the earth at any moment, so you had better come and check it out before they do!</div><div>A version of the test applies to k-means clusters also.</div><div><br></div><div>See you Friday at 11am in the Stat's classroom (unless the asteroids see us first.)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>sekhar</div><div><br></div></div>
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