What are the true clusters?

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 64, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-62

  Hennig, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active scientific realism; Categorization; Constructivism; Mixture models; Natural kinds; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ACTIVE SCIENTIFIC REALISM; CATEGORIZATION; CONSTRUCTIVISM; MIXTURE MODEL; NATURAL KINDS; VARIABLE SELECTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84939570606     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2015.04.009     Document Type: Article

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