Title: Internal quality measures for clustering in metric spaces

Authors: Quynh H. Nguyen, V.J. Rayward-Smith

Addresses: School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwick, NR4 7TJ, UK. ' School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwick, NR4 7TJ, UK

Abstract: This paper reviews clustering in metric spaces and some of the many and various fitness measures used to measure cluster quality. Experiments are undertaken to determine the correlation between these measures.

Keywords: clustering; fitness measures; internal quality measures; metric spaces; cluster quality.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2008.017973

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining, 2008 Vol.3 No.1, pp.4 - 29

Published online: 25 Apr 2008 *

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