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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume 25, Issue 11, Pages 1263-1271Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.04.004
Keywords
fuzzy clustering; k-modes algorithm; fuzzy k-modes algorithm; categorical data; fuzzy centroid
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In this paper the conventional fuzzy k-modes algorithm for clustering categorical data is extended by representing the clusters of categorical data with fuzzy centroids instead of the hard-type centroids used in the original algorithm. Use of fuzzy centroids makes it possible to fully exploit the power of fuzzy sets in representing the uncertainty in the classification of categorical data. To test the proposed approach, the proposed algorithm and two conventional algorithms (the k-modes and fuzzy k-modes algorithms) were used to cluster three categorical data sets. The proposed method was found to give markedly better clustering results. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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