Clustering Objects Described by Juxtaposition of Binary Data Tables

Abstract EN

This paper seeks to develop an allocation of 0/1 data matrices to physical systems upon a Kullback-Leibler distance between probability distributions.

The distributions are estimated from the contents of the data matrices.

We discuss an ascending hierarchical classification method, a numerical example and mention an application with survey data concerning the level of development of the departments of a given territory of a country.