Robustification of the sparse K-means clustering algorithm

Searching a dataset for the ‘‘natural grouping / clustering’’ is an important explanatory technique for understanding complex multivariate datasets. One might expect that the true underlying clusters present in a dataset differ only with respect to a small fraction of the features. Furthermore, one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kondo, Yumi
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37093