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Apache Mahout Clustering Designs

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Apache Mahout Clustering Designs

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Apache Mahout Clustering Designs
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Understanding Model-based Clustering

In the previous chapters, we discussed K-means, Fuzzy K-means, and Canopy clustering. In this chapter, we will discuss the model-based clustering algorithm. Model-based clustering is used to overcome some of the deficiencies that can occur in the K-means or Fuzzy K-means algorithms. We will discuss the following topics in this chapter:

  • Learning model-based clustering

  • Understanding Dirichlet clustering

  • Understanding topic modeling