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Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Data Science

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  • Euclidean metric limitations in clustering complex data.
  • Scale invariance issues with standard data transformations.
  • Impact of distance metrics on cluster analysis results.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the EDO-transformation for enhanced data scaling.
  • Improve clustering accuracy for multimodal and non-normally distributed variables.
  • Provide a superior alternative to z-standardization in multivariate analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed EDO-transformation involving Gaussian mixture modeling and mode selection.
  • Comparative analysis using artificial and biomedical datasets.
  • Evaluation against untransformed, z-transformed, and pooled variable scaling methods.

Main Results:

  • EDO scaling demonstrated superior clustering performance across metrics (accuracy, Rand index, Dunn's index).
  • Outperformed classical alternatives in simulation and real-world data applications.
  • Successfully applied to high-dimensional genomic data for breast cancer sample clustering.

Conclusions:

  • EDO transformation is a recommended alternative to z-standardization for multivariate data analysis.
  • Particularly beneficial for nontrivially distributed datasets.
  • The "EDOtrans" R package is publicly available for implementation.