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Name: clustering
ID: m13655
Language: English (en)
Summary: this module contains an introduction to one of the most popular datamining technique, clustering. First we will discuss what is clustering and when we need to do it. Next some general topics are discussed as how to calculate the distance or dissimilarity functions, what to do when we came across categorical attributes etc.. Next the discussion bifurcates into two majore ways of clustering the hierarchical method and partitioning method. Different methods under these two categories are discussed in detail. Working codes for these methods will be available sortly on author's personal we site http://emailsaptarshi.googlepages.com . The module ends with discussing real life problems.
Subject: Test/Draft
Keywords: average linkage, clustering, dendogram, distance function, hierarchical clustering, k-mean clustering, PAM, similarity function, similarity matrix, single linkage
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: saptarshi das (emailsaptarshi@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: saptarshi das (emailsaptarshi@gmail.com)
Maintainers: saptarshi das (emailsaptarshi@gmail.com)
Version: 1.6 (history)
Created: Jun 9, 2006 1:43 am GMT-5
Revised: Oct 6, 2006 6:22 pm GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.6 Oct 6, 2006 6:22 pm GMT-5 by saptarshi das
Changes: 
minor changes
Version: 1.5 Oct 5, 2006 11:13 am GMT-5 by saptarshi das
Changes: 
aded few lines on the example of clustering.
Version: 1.4 Aug 20, 2006 4:53 pm GMT-5 by saptarshi das
Changes: 
nothing as such
Version: 1.3 Aug 15, 2006 5:31 am GMT-5 by saptarshi das
Changes: 
added few more lines
Version: 1.2 Jul 17, 2006 2:07 am GMT-5 by saptarshi das
Changes: 
testing
Version: 1.1 Jun 9, 2006 1:48 am GMT-5 by saptarshi das
Changes: 
added new module

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