Simultaneous variable weighting and determining the number of clusters—A weighted Gaussian means algorithm

Authors

Saptarshi Chakraborty, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Swagatam Das, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Statistics and Probability Letters

Abstract

We propose a simple variable (feature) weight learning strategy for the Gaussian means algorithm which can automatically determine the number of clusters in a dataset as well. We investigate some important theoretical properties and convergence behavior of the proposed algorithm.

First Page

148

Last Page

156

DOI

10.1016/j.spl.2018.01.015

Publication Date

6-1-2018

Recommended Citation

Chakraborty, Saptarshi and Das, Swagatam, "Simultaneous variable weighting and determining the number of clusters—A weighted Gaussian means algorithm" (2018). Journal Articles. 1368.
https://digitalcommons.isical.ac.in/journal-articles/1368