centrotype

plural centrotypes

1. cluster analysisThe data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.

   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.

   2008, Frédéric Cao, José-Luis Lisani, Jean-Michel Morel, A Theory of Shape Identification, page 227

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   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 ) .

   1994, Canadian Journal of Microbiology: - Volume 40, page 951

   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.

   1994, I.E. Frank, Roberto Todeschini, The Data Analysis Handbook, page 229

   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.

   2012, F.G. Priest, Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana, B.J. Tindall, Bacterial Diversity and Systematics, page 217