Estimating the number of clusters

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-382

  Cuevas, Antonio ^a   Febrero, Manuel ^b   Fraiman, Ricardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Density estimates; Level sets; Number of modes; Smoothed bootstrap; Support estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343765     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315985     Document Type: Article

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