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Revising K-Means Clustering under Semi-Supervision

  • Huh Myung-Hoe (Department of Statistics, Korea University) ;
  • Yi SeongKeun (Dept. of Business Administration, Sungshin Women's University) ;
  • Lee Yonggoo (Department of Statistics, Chung-Ang University)
  • 발행 : 2005.08.01

초록

In k-means clustering, we standardize variables before clustering and iterate two steps: units allocation by Euclidean sense and centroids updating. In applications to DB marketing where clusters are to be used as customer segments with similar consumption behaviors, we frequently acquire additional variables on the customers or the units through marketing campaigns a posteriori. Hence we need to modify the clusters originally formed after each campaign. The aim of this study is to propose a revision method of k-means clusters, incorporating added information by weighting clustering variables. We illustrate the proposed method in an empirical case.

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