Eros-based Fuzzy Cluster Method for Longitudual Data

Considering the characteristics of longitudinal data set,such as multi-variates,missing data,unequal series length,and irregular time interval,an algorithm based on Eros distance similarity measure for longitudinal data is proposed.Eros distance is used in Fuzzy-C-Means cluster processing.First,preprocessing is done for unbalance longitudinal data set,which includes filling the missing data,reducing the randaut attributes,etc.Second,FErosCM Cluster method is used for claasification automatically,and takes into account information entropy for assessing the performance of cluster algorithm.Experiments show that this method is effective and efficient for longitudinal data classification.