Clustering Analysis of Multivariate Data: A Weighted Spatial Ranks-Based Approach

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Simulated data example: contour plots of (a) Euclidean distances, (b) Mahalanobis distances, (c) spatial ranks, and (d) spatial depth based on 1000 random observations from bivariate mixture normal distribution with the two groups.

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