Cluster Set

A cluster set is a set of item clusters that contain cluster members which are similar to each other (belong together / have low within-group variation), and also cluster members which are dissimilar to the cluster members in the other item clusters (have high between-group variation).

• AKA: Clustering.
• Context:
  • It can be the output of a Clustering Task.
  • It can have Structure, e.g. be a Taxonomy.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • a Taxonomy.
• See: Itemset Set.

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References

2009

• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=clustering
  • S: (n) bunch, clump, cluster, clustering (a grouping of a number of similar things) "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers"
• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis#Hierarchical_clustering
  • … Cutting the tree at a given height will give a clustering at a selected precision.

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