Talk:Determining the number of clusters in a data set
Latest comment: 15 years ago by Talgalili in topic Not that common problem
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A colleague will be adding details to the "Elbow method" and "Information criteria" subsections shortly. -JohnMeier (talk) 15:10, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
Not that common problem
There are lots of alternative algorithms that do not require the specification of k beforehand. This is mostly a problem of k-means, k-medoids and the EM-algorithm. Pretty much none of the more recent algorithms has this parameter. --Chire2 (talk) 14:13, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
- Any examples for such algorithms? thanks. Talgalili (talk) 12:36, 20 June 2010 (UTC)