title: Systematic analysis of group identification in stock markets.
abstract: We propose improved methods to identify stock groups using the correlation matrix of stock price changes. By filtering out the market-wide effect and the random noise, we construct the correlation matrix of stock groups in which nontrivial high correlations between stocks are found. Using the filtered correlation matrix, we successfully identify the multiple stock groups without any extra knowledge of the stocks by the optimization of the matrix representation and the percolation approach to the correlation-based network of stocks. These methods drastically reduce the ambiguities while finding stock groups using the eigenvectors of the correlation matrix.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-701, Korea. dhkim@stat.kaist.ac.kr
authors.forename: Dong-Hee
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hawoong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jeong