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Clustering with Confidence: A Binning Approach

Rebecca Nugent and Werner Stuetzle

Abstract:

We present a plug-in method for estimating the cluster tree of a density. The method takes advantage of the ability to exactly compute the level sets of a piecewise constant density estimate. We then introduce clustering with confidence, an automatic pruning procedure that assesses significance of splits (and thereby clusteres) in the cluster tree; the only user input is the desired confidence level.







Heidi Sestrich 2008-11-06
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