An algorithm for clustering tendency assessment

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 441-450

  Hu, Yingkang ^a   Hathaway, Richard J ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Clustering tendency; Data visualization; Similarity measures

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

CLUSTER STRUCTURES; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING TENDENCY; DATA VISUALIZATION; GRAY-LEVEL IMAGES; HIGH-LOW; HUMAN EYES; NEW ALGORITHM; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; NUMERICA L RESULTS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; VISUAL ASSESSMENTS; VISUAL OUTPUTS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 52949154587     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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