272 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
268 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
As the amount of information recorded and stored electronically grows ever larger, it becomes increasingly useful, if not essential, to develop better and more efficient ways to summarize and extract information from these large, multivariate data sets. The field of classification does just that-investigates sets of "objects" to see if they can be summarized into a small number of classes... Read more
Introduction Classification, Assignment, and Dissection Aims of Classification Stages in a Numerical Classification Data Sets Measures of Similarity and Dissimilarity Introduction Selected Measures of Similarity and Dissimilarity Some Difficulties Construction of Relevant Measures Partitions Partitioning Criteria Iterative Relocation Algorithms Mathematical Programming Other Partitioning Algorithms How Many Clusters? Links with Statistical Models Hierarchical Classifications Definitions and Representations Algorithms Choice of Clustering Strategy Consensus Trees More General Tree Models Other Clustering Procedures Fuzzy Clustering Constrained Classification Overlapping Classification Conceptual Clustering Classification of Symbolic Data Partitions of Partitions Graphical Representations Introduction Principal Coordinates Analysis Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling Interactive Graphics and Self-Organizing Maps Biplots Cluster Validation and Description Introduction Cluster Validation Cluster Description References Author Index Subject Index
Biography
Gordon, A.D.
