Centrotype
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Centrotype is a noun meaning (cluster analysis) The data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.
Meaning
(cluster analysis) The data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.
Example Sentences
The criterion function to be minimized is usually the sum of the average dissimilarities between each centrotype and all of the other patterns of the same cluster.
This centroid represented a hypothetical organism with a centrotype selected as the actual organism closest to the centroid for each cluster ( Sneath and Sokal 1973 ) .
The final partition is obtained in an iterative procedure that relocates an object, i.e. puts it into another cluster if that cluster's centrotype or centroid is closer.
The strain closest to the centroid was designated the "centrotype" (indicated with the superscript "CT"). The centrotype organism can be thought of as the "Reference Strain" which most closely represents the essential and discriminating features of each cluster as a whole.
Word Forms
- centrotypes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include centroid, archetypoid, centeroid, centerpoint, clustercore, cent.
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