How the initialization affects the stability of the k-means algorithm

ESAIM - Probability and Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 436-452

  Bubeck, Sébastien ^a   MeilĂ, Marina ^b   Luxburg, Ulrike Von ^c  

^a CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMÀTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clustering; K means; Model selection; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996139453     PISSN: 12928100     EISSN: 12623318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/ps/2012013     Document Type: Article

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