MCS: A Method for Finding the Number of Clusters

This paper proposes a maximum clustering similarity (MCS) method for determining the number of clusters in a data set by studying the behavior of similarity indices comparing two (of several) clustering methods. The similarity between the two clusterings is calculated at the same number of clusters,...

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Published in:	Journal of classification Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 184 - 209
Main Authors:	Albatineh, Ahmed N., Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Magdalena
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer-Verlag 01.07.2011 Springer Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Algorithmics. Computability. Computer arithmetics Algorithms Applied sciences Bioinformatics Candidates Cluster analysis Clustering Comparisons Computer science; control theory; systems Data Data analysis Exact sciences and technology Indexes Marketing Mathematics Mathematics and Statistics Methods Methods of scientific computing (including symbolic computation, algebraic computation) Multivariate analysis Numerical analysis. Scientific computation Pattern Recognition Probability and statistics Psychometrics Sciences and techniques of general use Signal,Image and Speech Processing Statistical Theory and Methods Statistics Theoretical computing Similarity index Gap statistic Bivariate normal mixture Number of clusters Comparing partitions Circular data Correction for chance agreement Clustering algorithm Mixed distribution Partition Discriminant analysis Data analysis Cluster analysis (statistics) Multivariate analysis Algorithm Statistical method
ISSN:	0176-4268, 1432-1343
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