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1、聚类分析参考文献聚类分析文献英文翻译电气信息工程学院外文翻译英文名称:Datamining-clustering译文名称:数据挖掘一聚类分析专业:自动化姓名:班级学号:****指导教师:rjwrjwrjw译文出处:Datamining:IanH.Witten,Eibe二0—0年四月二十六日Clustering5.1INTRODUCTIONClusteringissimilartoclassificationinthatdataaregrouped・However,unlikeclassification,thegroupsarenotpredefined.Ins
2、tead,thegroupingisaccomplishedbyfindingsimilaritiesbetweendataaccordingtocharacteristicsfoundintheactualdata・Thegroupsarecalledclusters.Someauthorsviewclusteringasaspecialtypeofclassification.Inthistext,however,wefollowamoreconventionalviewinthatthetwoaredifferent.ManydeHnitionsforcl
3、ustershavebeenproposed:arenotalike.distancebetweenapointintheclusterandanypointoutsideit.Atermsimilartoclusteringisdatabasesegmentation,whereliketuple(record)inadatabasearegroupedtogether.Thisisdonetopartitionorsegmentthedatabaseintocomponentsthatthengivetheuseramoregeneralviewofthed
4、ata.Inthiscasetext,wedonotdifferentiatebetweensegmentationandclustering.AsimpleexampleofclusteringisfoundinExample5.1.Thisexampleillustratesthefactthatthatdetermininghowtodotheclusteringisnotstraightforward.AsillustratedinFigure5.1,agivensetofdatamaybeclusteredondifferentattributes.H
5、ereagroupofhomesinageographicareaisshown.Thefirstfloortypeofclusteringisbasedonthelocationofthehome.Homesthataregeographicallydosetoeachotherareclusteredtogether.Inthesecondclustering,homesaregroupedbasedonthesizeofthehouse.Clusteringhasbeenusedinmanyapplicationdomains,includingbiolo
6、gy,medicine,anthropology,marketing,andeconomics.Clusteringapplicationsincludeplantandanimalclassification,diseaseclassification,imageprocessing,patternrecognition,anddocumentretrieval.Oneofthefirstdomainsinwhichclusteringwasusedwasbiologicaltaxonomy.RecentusesincludeexaminingWeblogda
7、tatodetectusagepatterns.Whenclusteringisappliedtoareal-worlddatabase,manyinterestingproblemsoccur:naturallyfallintoanycluster.Theycanbeviewedassolitaryclusters.However,ifaclusteringalgorithmattemptstofindlargerclusters,theseoutlierswillbeforcedtobeplacedinsomecluster.Thisprocessmayre
8、sultinthecre