Cluster Analysis

Kohei Adachi ()
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Kohei Adachi: Osaka University, Graduate School of Human Sciences

Chapter Chapter 7 in Matrix-Based Introduction to Multivariate Data Analysis, 2016, pp 93-105 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The term “cluster”Cluster is synonymous with both “group” as a noun and “classify” as a verb. Cluster analysisCluster analysis , which is also simply called clusteringClustering , generally refers to the procedures for computationally classifying (i.e., clustering) individuals into groups (i.e., clusters) so that similar individuals are classified into the same group and mutually dissimilar ones are allocated to different groups. There are various procedures for performing cluster analysis. One of the most popular of these, called k-means clustering (KMC)K-means clustering (KMC) , which was first presented by MacQueen (1967), is introduced here.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-2341-5_7

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