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Post-clustering Inference under Dependency

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Recent work by Gao et al. has laid the foundations for post-clustering inference. For the first time, the authors established a theoretical framework allowing to test for differences between means of estimated clusters. Additionally, they studied the estimation of unknown parameters while controlling the selective type I error. However, their theory was developed for independent observations identically distributed as $p$-dimensional Gaussian variables with a spherical covariance matrix. Here, we aim at extending this framework to a more convenient scenario for practical applications, where arbitrary dependence structures between observations and features are allowed. We show that a $p$-value for post-clustering inference under general dependency can be defined, and we assess the theoretical conditions allowing the compatible estimation of a covariance matrix. The theory is developed for hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms with several types of linkages, and for the $k$-means algorithm. We illustrate our method with synthetic data and real data of protein structures.
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hal-04250364 , version 1 (19-10-2023)

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Javier González-Delgado, Juan Cortés, Pierre Neuvial. Post-clustering Inference under Dependency. 2023. ⟨hal-04250364⟩
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