A multicriteria decision making approach for estimating the number of clusters in a data set.

Determining the number of clusters in a data set is an essential yet difficult step in cluster analysis. Since this task involves more than one criterion, it can be modeled as a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. This paper proposes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM)-based app...

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Main Authors: Yi Peng, Yong Zhang, Gang Kou, Yong Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3411440?pdf=render