The TAF arm had significantly improved renal and bone safety parameters: less proteinuria and less change in hip and spine BMD, consistent with results from a similarly designed study of the elvitegravir/C/F/TAF STR. This D/C/F/TAF STR offers a promising option for initial HIV treatment, with the high barrier to resistance of darunavir, and the potential for improved long-term renal and bone safety with TAF.
Estimating the number of clusters in a data set is a crucial step in cluster analysis. In this article, motivated by the gap method (Tibshirani, Walther, and Hastie, 2001, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B63, 411-423), we propose the weighted gap and the difference of difference-weighted (DD-weighted) gap methods for estimating the number of clusters in data using the weighted within-clusters sum of errors: a measure of the within-clusters homogeneity. In addition, we propose a "multilayer" clustering approach, which is shown to be more accurate than the original gap method, particularly in detecting the nested cluster structure of the data. The methods are applicable when the input data contain continuous measurements and can be used with any clustering method. Simulation studies and real data are investigated and compared among these proposed methods as well as with the original gap method.
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