A non-parametric method to estimate the number of clusters

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2013.11.012zbMath1506.62064MaRDI QIDQ1623424

Daniel Y. Takahashi, Alexandre G. Patriota, André Fujita

Publication date: 23 November 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2013.11.012

zbMATH Keywords

clustering; spectral clustering; \(k\)-means; silhouette method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62-08: Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics

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

62G05: Nonparametric estimation

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Uses Software

• R

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