Study of a Mixed Similarity Measure for Classification and Clustering

  • Authors:
  • Tu Bao Ho;Ngoc Binh Nguyen;Takafumi Morita

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • PAKDD '99 Proceedings of the Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Methodologies for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper presents a st udy on mixed similarity mea su res (MSM) th at allows doing classification and cluste ring in many sit uations with out discreti eat.ion. For supervised classification we do experimental com parative studies of cl as sifiers bu ilt by dec isio n t ree induction system C4.5 and k ne a rest n eighbor ru le usin g MS:-'L Fo r unsu per vised clustering we first intro duce an extension of k-means algorithm for m ixed numeric and symbolic da ta, t hen evaluate clusters obtained by th is algorithm with natural classes. Exp erimental studies allow us to draw conclusions (meta-knowledge) that are significant in pract ice about t he mutu al use of discreti zation techniques and MSM.