Unsupervised Divisive Classification

Symbolic Data Analysis and the SODAS Software

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 149-156

  Rasson, Jean Paul ^a   Pirçon, Jean Yves ^a   Lallemand, Pascale ^a   Adans, Séverine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bumps and multi modalities; Clustering problem; Clustering tree method; Divisive clustering method; Homogeneous and non homogeneous Poisson process; Kernel method and smoothing parameter; Pruning method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953060927     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470723562.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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