Parameter modification for clustering criteria

DOI10.1007/BF01896986MaRDI QIDQ1113591zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael P. Windham

Publication date 1987

Published in Journal of Classification (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01896986

zbMATH Keywords

classificationfuzzy clusteringmultivariate mixture analysisnumerical classificationnumerical optimizationparameter modificationpartitioning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

Review text

The more ways there are of understanding a clustering technique, the more effectively the results can be analyzed and used. I will give a general procedure, called parameter modification, to obtain from a clustering criterion a variety of equivalent forms of the criterion. These alternative forms reveal aspects of the technique that are not necessarily apparent in the original formulation. This procedure is successful in improving the understanding of a significant number of clustering techniques. The insight obtained will be illustrated by applying parameter modification to partitioning, mixture and fuzzy clustering methods, resulting in a unified approach to the study of these methods and a general algorithm for optimizing them.

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