Additive and multiplicative mixed normal distributions and finding cluster centers

International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-11

  Lipovetsky, Stan ^a  

^a GfK Custom Research North America   (United States)

Author keywords

Additive and multiplicative aggregations; Cluster analysis; Mixed normal distribution; Nonlinear modeling

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARITHMETIC MEAN; CLUSTERING PROBLEMS; DATA MINING PROBLEMS; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; MULTI-VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NUMERICAL RESULTS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84872345248     PISSN: 18688071     EISSN: 1868808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13042-012-0070-3     Document Type: Article

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