centrotype

centrotype noun: the data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.

Noun

centrotype (plural centrotypes)

(cluster analysis) The data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.
- 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 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:
The strain closest to the centroid was designated the "centrotype" (indicated with the superscript "CT").2012, F.G. Priest, Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana, B.J. Tindall, Bacterial Diversity and Systematics, page 217:

plural	centrotypes

What does centrotype mean?: Centrotype means the data point in a cluster that is closest to the centroid.
How do you use centrotype in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is centrotype?: Centrotype is a noun.
What is the plural of centrotype?: The plural of centrotype is centrotypes.

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