We herein introduce a new method of interpretable clustering that uses unsu- pervised binary trees. It is a three-stage procedure, the rst stage of which entails a series of recursive binary splits to reduce the heterogeneity of the data within the new subsamples. During the second stage (pruning), consideration is given to whether adjacent nodes can be aggregated. Finally, during the third stage (join- ing), similar clusters are joined together, even if they do not share the same parent originally. Consistency results are obtained, and the procedure is used on simulated and real data sets.

We introduce a new procedure for pattern recognition, based on the concepts of random projections and nearest neighbors. It can be thought as an improvement of the classical nearest neighbors classification rules. Besides the concept of neighbors we introduce the notion of district, a larger set which will be projected. Then we apply one dimensional k-NN methods to the projected data on randomly selected directions. In this way we are able to provide a method with some robustness properties and more accurate to handle high dimensional data. The procedure is also universally consistent. We challenge the method with the Isolet data where we obtain a very high classification score.