Meanings
nouncluster analysis (countable and uncountable, plural cluster analyses)
plural cluster analyses
- countableuncountableartificial intelligencemathematicsThe 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.
Translations
Czech shluková analýza
- shluková analýzaclassification of objects
Finnish ryhmittelyanalyysi, klusterianalyysi
- ryhmittelyanalyysiclassification of objects
- klusterianalyysiclassification of objects
Russian кла́стерный ана́лиз
- кла́стерный ана́лиз (klásternyj análiz)classification of objects
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