Probabilistic distance clustering adjusted for cluster size

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BEN-ISRAEL, Adi
İyigün, Cem

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The probabilistic distance clustering method of [1] works well if the cluster sizes are approximately equal. We modify that method to deal with clusters of arbitrary size and for problems where the cluster sizes are themselves unknowns that need to be estimated. In the latter case, our method is a viable alternative to the expectation-maximization (EM) method.

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Management Science and Operations Research, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38932

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PROBABILITY IN THE ENGINEERING AND INFORMATIONAL SCIENCES

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0269964808000351

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A. BEN-ISRAEL and C. İyigün, “Probabilistic distance clustering adjusted for cluster size,” PROBABILITY IN THE ENGINEERING AND INFORMATIONAL SCIENCES, pp. 603–621, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38932.