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A score function for Bayesian cluster analysis

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Abstract

We propose a score function for Bayesian clustering. The function is parameter free and captures the interplay between the within cluster variance and the between cluster entropy of a clustering. It can be used to choose the number of clusters in well-established clustering methods such as hierarchical clustering or KK-means algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.1905.10209,
  title  = {A score function for Bayesian cluster analysis},
  author = {John Noble and Łukasz Rajkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.10209},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages

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