The influence function of the TCLUST robust clustering procedure

Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-130

  Ruwet, C ^a   Garcia Escudero L A ^b   Gordaliza, A ^b   Mayo Iscar, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous clustering; Influence function; Robustness; Trimming

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TRIMMING;

BACKGROUND NOISE; CLUSTERING APPROACH; EIGENVALUES; HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERING; INFLUENCE FUNCTIONS; K-MEANS; K-MEANS METHOD; ROBUST CLUSTERING; ROBUSTNESS PROPERTIES; SCATTER MATRIX; SPURIOUS CLUSTER; UNIVARIATE;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 84862198148     PISSN: 18625347     EISSN: 18625355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11634-012-0107-1     Document Type: Article

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