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Applied Data Mining
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Applied Data Mining

by Guandong Xu, Yu Zong, Zhenglu Yang
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
284 pages
13h 54m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER 7
Advanced Clustering Analysis
7.1 Introduction
Clustering is a useful approach in data mining processes for identifying
patterns and revealing underlying knowledge from large data collections.
The application areas of clustering include image segmentation, information
retrieval, and document classifi cation, associate rule mining, web usage
tracking and transaction analysis. Generally, clustering is defi ned as the
process of partitioning unlabeled data set into meaningful groups (clusters)
so that intra-group similarities are maximized and inter-group similarities
are minimized at the same time. In essence, clustering involves the following ...
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