The noise component in model-based cluster analysis

Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-138

  Hennig, Christian ^a   Coretto, Pietro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MACHINE LEARNING; MIXTURES;

ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES; DATA EXAMPLES; MIXTURE COMPONENTS; ML ESTIMATORS; MODEL-BASED CLUSTER ANALYSIS; NOISE COMPONENTS; NORMAL MIXTURE MODELS; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879562466     PISSN: 14318814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-78246-9_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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