Determining the number of clusters in a data set

Known as: How many clusters

Determining the number of clusters in a data set, a quantity often labeled k as in the k-means algorithm, is a frequent problem in data clustering…

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2011

Cluster analysis is a data mining technique that is meant ot simplify the process of classifying data points. The basic…

2010

The design and test of a two-stage PCA+SOM methodology targeting applications on images database are presented and the result of…

2009

A search engine query for a person’s name often brings up web pages corresponding to several people who share the same name. The…

2007

This paper applies cluster analysis to achieve a regionalisation of the Sonora River Basin in the Sonora State, Mexico, into…

2005

Swarm based approaches to clustering have been shown to be able to skip local extrema by doing a form of global search. We…

2005

This paper addresses the problem of automatically grouping unknown speech utterances that are from the same speaker. A clustering…

2005

This paper proposed a novel video shot clustering algorithm using spectral method by joint modeling of inter and intra shot…

2004

2002

In this paper we present a linearization of the Lerman clustering index for determining the number of clusters in a data set. Our…

1943

ACCORDING to recent work1, X-ray-induced chromatid breaks in Tradescantia microspores are due to the simultaneous occurrence of…