Dealing with Distances and Transformations for Fuzzy C-Means Clustering of Compositional Data

Journal of Classification

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-169

  Palarea Albaladejo, Javier ^a   Martín Fernández, Josep Antoni ^b   Soto, Jesús A ^c  

^a BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aitchison distance; Closed data; Compositional data; FCM; Fuzzy clustering; Simplex space

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862987859     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-012-9105-4     Document Type: Article

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