Clustering分析.pptVIP

Clustering Georg Gerber Lecture #6, 2/6/02 Lecture Overview Motivation – why do clustering? Examples from research papers Choosing (dis)similarity measures – a critical step in clustering Euclidean distance Pearson Linear Correlation Clustering algorithms Hierarchical agglomerative clustering K-means clustering and quality measures Self-organizing maps (if time) What is clustering? A way of grouping together data samples that are similar in some way - according to some criteria that you pick A form of unsupervised learning – you generally don’t have examples demonstrating how the data should