Table 2 Summary of 40 sample clusters
From: Expression profiling of human renal carcinomas with functional taxonomic analysis
| Â | Data pre-processing method | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Clustering method | Unchanged | Log 10 Transformation | Standardization to N(0,1) | Log 10 transformation and Standardization to N(0,1) |
Single linkage cluster analysis | N | Y | N | N |
Average linkage cluster analysis | N | Y | N | Y |
Complete linkage cluster analysis | N | Y | N | Y |
Ward's minimum variance cluster analysis | N | Y | N | Y |
Centroid hierarchical cluster analysis | N | Y | N | N |
Density linkage cluster analysis | N | N | N | N |
Flexible-beta cluster analysis | N | Y | N | Y |
McQuitty's similarity analysis | N | Y | N | Y |
Oblique principle component clustering, correlation P | N | Y | N | Y |
Oblique principle component clustering, correlation S | Y | Y | Y | Y |
Number of methods with cluster dendrograms that matched the sample biology | 1 | 9 | 1 | 7 |