Cluster Analysis for Data Mining and System Identification

Dataclusteringisacommontechniqueforstatisticaldataanalysis,whichisusedin many ?elds, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis and bioinformatics. Clustering is the classi?cation of similar objects into di?erent groups, or more precisely, the partitioning of a data set into subsets (clusters), so that the data in each subset (ideally) share some common trait – often proximity according to some de?ned distance measure. The aim of this book is to illustrate that