Better alternatives to current methods of scaling and weighting data for cluster analysis

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3483-3496

  Gnanadesikan, R ^a   Kettenring, J R ^b   Maloor, Srinivas ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Discriminant analysis; Variable scaling; Variable weighting

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447501685     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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