FCM: The fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 1984, Pages 191-203

  Bezdek, James C ^a   Ehrlich, Robert ^b   Full, William ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Cluster validity; Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy QMODEL; Least squared errors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES - FORTRAN; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; DATA PROCESSING - NATURAL SCIENCES APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FUZZY SETS;

ADJUSTABLE WEIGHTING FACTOR; FUZZY C-MEANS (FCM) CLUSTERING PROPERTIES; FUZZY PARTITIONS AND PROTOTYPES; GENERALIZED LEAST-SQUARE OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; GEOSTATICAL DATA ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 0021583718     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-3004(84)90020-7     Document Type: Article

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