Clustering in the presence of scatter

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 341-352

  Maitra, Ranjan ^a   Ramler, Ivan P ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' information criterion; Biweight estimator; Exact c separation; K clips; MCLUST; Methylmercury; Tight clustering

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

BAYES INFORMATION CRITERION; BIWEIGHT; BIWEIGHT ESTIMATOR; CLUSTERINGS; EXACT-C-SEPARATION; K-CLIP; MCLUST; METHYL MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY; TIGHT CLUSTERING;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

MERCURY;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; HOMOGENEITY; METHYLMERCURY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYMMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 66949114265     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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