CVAP: Validation for cluster analyses

Data Science Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 88-93

  Wang, Kaijun ^a   Wang, Baijie ^b   Peng, Liuqing ^b  

^a FUJIAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster validation; Validity indices; Visual cluster analysis environment

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER VALIDATION; CLUSTER VALIDITY ANALYSIS; CLUSTERING QUALITY; CLUSTERING RESULTS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; VALIDITY INDEX; VISUAL CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 76249111661     PISSN: 16831470     EISSN: 16831470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2481/dsj.007-020     Document Type: Article

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