K-modes clustering was originally developed by Anil Chaturvedi, Paul
Green and me in 1994, but, for various reasons, not published until
2001. K-modes indeed is the optimal procedure to use for the
problem of clustering categorical data you describe. The reference
for our paper is:
Chaturvedi, A.D., Green, P.E. & Carroll, J.D. (2001).
K-modes clustering. Journal of Classification, 18,
35-56.
Doug Carroll
At 09:39 AM 2/4/2008, Arnaud Trollé wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to cluster categorical data (3 categories) by means of a
partitioning
method; I'm quite a beginner in that field and I would need to be
enlightened.
From a bibliographic review I carried out about that topic, it appeared
to me
that a method is often used :the k-modes method. From her/his experience,
could anyone confirm or deny that it is the case ? If denied, which
method
could be more "powerful" ?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards.
Arnaud.
PhD Student in Acoustics.
Lyon, France.
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