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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Taiyeong Lee, Cary, NC (US);
David Rawlins Duling, Durham, NC (US);
Dominique Joseph Latour, Cary, NC (US);
Taiyeong Lee, Cary, NC (US);
David Rawlins Duling, Durham, NC (US);
Dominique Joseph Latour, Cary, NC (US);
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for creating a cluster structure from a data set containing input variables. Global clusters are created within a first stage, by computing a similarity matrix from the data set. A global cluster structure and sub-cluster structure are created within a second stage, where the global cluster structure and the sub-cluster structure are created using a latent variable clustering technique and the cluster structure output is generated by combining the created global cluster structure and the created sub-cluster structure.