An iterative initial-points refinement algorithm for categorical data clustering

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 875-884

  Sun, Ying ^a   Zhu, Qiuming ^a   Chen, Zhengxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data clustering; Data mining; Pattern classification; Refinement algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CATEGORICAL DATA CLUSTERING;

DATA ACQUISITION;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 0036567251     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(01)00163-5     Document Type: Article

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