A preliminary study of optimal variable weighting in k-means clustering

Journal of Classification

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 271-285

  Green, Paul E ^a   Kim, Jonathan ^a   Carmone, Frank J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; k means clustering; optimal weighting; Rand index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000710590     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01908720     Document Type: Article

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