Cluster validation by prediction strength

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 511-528

  Tibshirani, Robert ^a   Walther, Guenther ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Number of clusters; Prediction; Unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644472430     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186005X59243     Document Type: Article

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