Approximate Confidence Intervals for the Number of Clusters
聚类数量的近似置信区间
We consider clustering for the purpose of data reduction. Similar objects are grouped together in clusters so that one can then work with the few cluster descriptors instead of the many data points. The quality of any given clustering is measured by a loss function that takes into account both the parsimony of the clustering and the loss of information due to clustering. An optimal clustering can be obtained by minimizing the theoretical loss function. It is shown that a…