A monte carlo study of thirty internal criterion measures for cluster analysis

Psychometrika

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 187-199

  Milligan, Glenn W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

classification; numerical taxonomy; permutation tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000228352     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: 18600980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02293899     Document Type: Article

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