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McLachlan, Geoffrey J. – Psychological Methods, 2011
I discuss the recommendations and cautions in Steinley and Brusco's (2011) article on the use of finite models to cluster a data set. In their article, much use is made of comparison with the "K"-means procedure. As noted by researchers for over 30 years, the "K"-means procedure can be viewed as a special case of finite mixture modeling in which…
Descriptors: Computation, Multivariate Analysis, Matrices, Statistical Analysis