October 2017
Beginner to intermediate
572 pages
26h 1m
English
In contrast to hierarchical clustering and k-means clustering, which use a heuristic approach and do not depend on a formal model, model-based clustering techniques assume varieties of data models and apply an EM algorithm to obtain the most likely model, and further use the model to infer the most likely number of clusters. In this recipe, we will demonstrate how to use the model-based method to determine the most likely number of clusters.
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