Identifying Groups: A Comparison of Methodologies

This paper describes and compares three clustering techniques: traditional clustering methods, Kohonen maps and latent class models. The paper also proposes some novel measures of the quality of a clustering. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first contribution in the literature to compare these three techniques in a context where the classes are not known in advance.

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