What is K-Means Clustering

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is an algorithm to group (cluster) objects based on certain attributes into a pre-determined number (K) of groups or clusters. The grouping is done by minimizing the sum of squares of distances between individual data and the corresponding cluster centre which is calculated by averaging all the data within the cluster. It is an iterative procedure that refines the groupings in multiple steps each improving the cluster quality. Learn more in: Data Integration for Regulatory Gene Module Discovery

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Objects are grouped into a fixed number (k) of partitions so that the partitions are dissimilar to each other. Learn more in: C-MICRA: A Tool for Clustering Microarray Data

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A cluster analysis technique in which clusters are formed by randomly selecting k data points as initial seeds or centroids, and the remaining data points are assigned to the closest cluster on the basis of the distance between the data point and the cluster centroid. Learn more in: Cluster Analysis Using Rough Clustering and K-Means Clustering

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A cluster analysis technique in which clusters are formed by randomly selecting k data points as initial seeds or centroids, and the remaining data points are assigned to the closest cluster on the basis of the distance between the data point and the cluster centroid. Learn more in: Cluster Analysis Using Rough Clustering and k-Means Clustering

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Is a method of vector quantization, originally from signal processing, that aims to partition n observations into k clusters in which each observation belongs to the cluster with the nearest mean serving as a prototype of the cluster. Learn more in: Smart IDS and IPS for Cyber-Physical Systems

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One of the simplest and popular unsupervised machine learning algorithms, which group similar data points together. Learn more in: Metaheuristics Approaches to Solve the Employee Bus Routing Problem With Clustering-Based Bus Stop Selection

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An unsupervised machine learning/data mining method for clustering a set of entities into clusters of similar entities. Learn more in: A New Framework for Industrial Benchmarking

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A clustering technique that identifies a predetermined number of clusters of similar size and shape through an iterative search process utilizing total distance from data points to cluster centers across all K clusters. Learn more in: Cluster Analysis in R With Big Data Applications

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Used to partition n observations into k groups, where each observation belongs to cluster with nearest mean. Learn more in: Online Educational Video Recommendation System Analysis

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A clustering method that aims to separate observations into k clusters through minimizing squared Euclidean distances in each cluster. Learn more in: Mining Mobility Data in Response to COVID-19

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A kind of algorithm that separates different data points to different clusters based on different values. Learn more in: Airbnb (Air Bed and Breakfast) Listing Analysis Through Machine Learning Techniques

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Is an iterative divisive clustering technique that results in k specified clusters. Learn more in: Clustering Tourists Based on Reason for Destination Choice: Case of Izmir

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An algorithm that performs disjoint cluster analysis on the basis of Euclidean distances computed from variables and randomly generated initial seeds. Learn more in: Neural Networks for Automobile Insurance Pricing

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K-means clustering is the most well-known partition-based clustering algorithm. The algorithm starts by choosing k initial centroids, usually at random. Then the algorithm alternates between updating the cluster assignment of each data point by associating with the closest centroid and updating the centroids based on the new clusters until convergence. Learn more in: Cluster Analysis of Gene Expression Data