Determining the number of clusters in cluster analysis

DOI10.1016/J.JKSS.2007.10.004MaRDI QIDQ640693zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors My-Young Cheong, Hakbae Lee

Publication date 19 October 2011

Published in Journal of the Korean Statistical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jkss.2007.10.004

zbMATH Keywords

cluster analysisEM algorithmGibbs samplermixture modelmaximum a posterioriBayesian information criterionLaplace metropolis criteriamodified Fisher's criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Clustering in the social and behavioral sciences (91C20) Stochastic particle methods (65C35)

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• A new approach to cluster analysis: natural clustering
• Estimating the number of clusters
• Multi-sample cluster analysis using Akaike's information criterion
• Determining the Number of Clusters Using the Weighted Gap Statistic
• A Hierarchical Method for Determining the Number of Clusters

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Uses Software

• Gibbsit
• mclust

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