In cluster analysis, it is often useful to interpret the obtained partition with respect to external qualitative variables (defining known partitions) derived from alternative information. An approach is proposed in the model-based clustering context to select a model and a number of clusters in order to get a partition which both provides a good fit with the data and is related to the external...

BACKGROUND The full eventual effects of current smoking patterns cannot yet be seen in Africa. In South Africa, however, men and women in the coloured (mixed black and white ancestry) population have smoked for many decades. We assess mortality from smoking in the coloured, white, and black (African) population groups. METHODS In this case-control study, 481,640 South African notifications of...

Let Sn be the symmetric group, Cr the cyclic group of order r, and let S (r) n be the wreath product of Sn and Cr; which is the set of all coloured permutations on the symbols 1, 2, . . . , n with colours 1, 2, . . . , r, which is the analogous of the symmetric group when r = 1, and the hyperoctahedral group when r = 2. We prove, for every 2letter coloured pattern φ ∈ S 2 , that the number of φ...

A colouring of a 4-cycle system (V,B) is a surjective mapping φ : V → Γ. The elements of Γ are colours. If |Γ| = m, we have an m-colouring of (V,B). For every B ∈ B, let φ(B) = {φ(x)|x ∈ B}. There are seven distinct colouring patterns in which a 4-cycle can be coloured: type a (××××, monochromatic), type b (×××2, two-coloured of pattern 3 + 1), type c (× × 22, two-coloured of pattern 2 + 2), ty...

We call the digraph D an m-coloured digraph if its arcs are coloured with m colours. If D is an m-coloured digraph and a ∈ A(D), colour(a) will denote the colour has been used on a. A path (or a cycle) is called monochromatic if all of its arcs are coloured alike. A γ-cycle in D is a sequence of vertices, say γ = (u0, u1, . . . , un), such that ui 6= uj if i 6= j and for every i ∈ {0, 1, . . . ...