November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
7h 52m
English
The representative point of a cluster is called a centroid. This is the center of the samples that belong to the cluster and works as a prototype of the cluster. Therefore, finding the appropriate centroids that partition samples in a good manner is the goal of the K-means algorithm:

The centroid can be calculated as the mean of every point that belongs to the cluster. Assuming the sample points in the dataset are N vectors expressed as
, the centroid of the cluster, , can be represented as follows:
This is just an equally weighted ...
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