MCS: A method for finding the number of clusters

DOI10.1007/S00357-010-9069-1MaRDI QIDQ649160zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ahmed N. Albatineh, Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj'

Publication date 30 November 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-010-9069-1

zbMATH Keywords

bivariate normal mixturescircular dataclustering algorithmcomparing partitionscorrection for chance agreementgap statisticssimilarity index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Uses Software

• clusfind
• CLUSTAN
• R

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