Finding the Number of Clusters in a Dataset

DOI10.1198/016214503000000666zbMath1046.62064OpenAlexW1973041621WikidataQ57406597 ScholiaQ57406597MaRDI QIDQ4468489

Catherine Sugar, Gareth M. James

Publication date: 10 June 2004

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1198/016214503000000666

zbMATH Keywords

cluster analysismixture models\(k\)-means clustering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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