Tclust: An R package for a trimming approach to cluster analysis

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 47, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fritz, Heinrich ^a   García Escudero, Luis A ^b   Mayo Iscar, Agustín ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous clusters; Model based clustering; Trimming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863329770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v047.i12     Document Type: Article

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