2nd Edition

Clustering A Data Recovery Approach, Second Edition

By Boris Mirkin Copyright 2013
374 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

374 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

374 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Often considered more of an art than a science, books on clustering have been dominated by learning through example with techniques chosen almost through trial and error. Even the two most popular, and most related, clustering methods—K-Means for partitioning and Ward's method for hierarchical clustering—have lacked the theoretical underpinning required to establish a firm relationship between... Read more

What Is Clustering. What Is Data. K-Means Clustering and Related Approaches. Least-Squares Hierarchical Clustering. Similarity Clustering: Uniform, Modularity, Additive, Spectral, Consensus and Single Linkage. Validation and Interpretation. Least-Squares Data Recovery Clustering Models.

Biography

Boris Mirkin is a professor of computer science at the University of London, UK.