Cluster analysis: Overview

International Encyclopedia of Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 72-83

  Landau, S ^a   Chis Ster, I ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agglomerative hierarchical clustering; Cluster number; Dendrogram; K Means algorithm; Model based clustering; Optimization clustering; Proximities; Validity check

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884452214     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-044894-7.01315-4     Document Type: Chapter

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