On the number of clusters

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-96

  Hardy, André ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b FACULTÉS UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LOUIS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Hypervolume criterion; Number of clusters

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIVARIATE DATA; CLUSTERING METHODS; HYPERVOLUME CRITERION;

DATA REDUCTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030291361     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(96)00022-9     Document Type: Article

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