cluster analysis

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklʌ.stə.ɹəˈnæ.lə.sɪs/
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  • Hyphenation: clu‧ste‧ra‧na‧ly‧sis

Noun

cluster analysis (countable and uncountable, plural cluster analyses)

  1. (artificial intelligence, statistics) The classification of objects into different 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 defined distance measure.

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