. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2018 Jul 29;85:30–39. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.07.004

Table 1.

Summary of current methods

Papers	LD Pruning	Automatic selection of k ^*	Statistical tests performed	No selection of parameters required^ǂ
[9,11,19,21]	X
[40]	X		X
[16,26,29,31,34,35,37]		X
[10, 17, 39, 46],			X
This work	X	X	X	X

k is the parameter defining the number of cluster in the dataset.

^ǂ

No parameters or hyperparameters are required to be known or selected a priori by researchers (e.g., prior probability, toroid grid size).