Category:Cluster Analysis

This category contains results about Cluster Analysis.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Cluster Analysis.

Cluster analysis is a branch of statistics which determines whether, on the basis of observations, the data falls into clusters.

For a given metric, items in one cluster will in general be closer to each other than to items in another cluster.

Cluster analysis provides objective criteria to determine the number of clusters and to determine which items go into which cluster.