Linkage was completed using probabilistic linkage software.
Vital statistics linkages were completed in March 2004 and May 2005 to identify those who had died.
Permission was granted in May 2002 and vital statistics linkages were completed at Cancer Care Ontario in August 2002, March 2004 and May 2005.
Data linkage was completed for 9375 933%) children.
Ferreira and Hitchcock [20] compared the performance of four major hierarchical methods (single linkage, complete linkage, average linkage and Ward's method) for clustering functional data.
Blashfield [16] compared four types of hierarchical clustering methods (single linkage, complete linkage, average linkage and Ward's method) for accuracy in recovery of original population clusters.
Hands and Everitt [18] compared five hierarchical clustering techniques (single linkage, complete linkage, average, centroid, and Ward's method) on multivariate binary data.
Kuiper and Fisher [15] compared six hierarchical clustering procedures (single linkage, complete linkage, median, average linkage, centroid and Ward's method) for multivariate normal data, assuming that the true number of clusters was known.
For the purposes of this paper, the partitions were generated by a single run of multiple individual clustering algorithms (single-linkage, complete linkage, average linkage, weighted average distance, Ward and K-means methods).
Hierarchical clustering technique (e.g. Ward method, single linkage, complete linkage, etc)., K means and latent class clustering (LCC) have been used in road accident analysis [2, 3, 20 22].
