K-means cluster analysis, Advanced Statistics

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K-means cluster analysis is the method of cluster analysis in which from an initial partition of observations into K clusters, each observation in turn is analysed and reassigned, if suitable, to a different cluster in an attempt to optimize some predefined numerical criterion that measures in some sense the 'quality' of cluster solution. Several such clustering criteria have been suggested, but the most usually used arise from considering the features of the within groups, between groups and whole matrices of sums of squares and the cross products (W, B, T) which can be described for every partition of the observations into the particular number of groups. The two most ordinary of the clustering criteria developing from these matrices are given as follows

minimization of trace W

minimization of determinant W

The first of these has tendency to produce the 'spherical' clusters, the second to produce clusters that all have same shape, though this will not necessarily be spherical in shape. 

 


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