A method of predicting the number of clusters using Rand's statistic

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2005.08.006MaRDI QIDQ959433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Seong S. Chae, Janice L. Dubien, William D. Warde

Publication date 11 December 2008

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2005.08.006

zbMATH Keywords

agglomerative clustering algorithmagreementRand's \(C_k\) statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30)

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(8)

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• On the behaviour of \(K\)-means clustering of a dissimilarity matrix by means of full multidimensional scaling
• Intelligent choice of the number of clusters in K-means clustering: an experimental study with different cluster spreads
• Performance of Rand's C statistics in clustering analysis: an application to clustering the regions of Turkey
• Comparison of three hypothesis testing approaches for the selection of the appropriate number of clusters of variables
• A randomized algorithm for estimating the number of clusters
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