3 papers
stat.ML2019
Clustering with the Average Silhouette Width
Fatima Batool, Christian Hennig
The Average Silhouette Width (ASW; Rousseeuw (1987)) is a popular cluster validation index to estimate the number of clusters. Here we address the question whether it also is suita…
stat.ME2019
Initialization methods for optimum average silhouette width clustering
Fatima Batool
A unified clustering approach that can estimate number of clusters and produce clustering against this number simultaneously is proposed. Average silhouette width (ASW) is a widely…
stat.ME2019
An agglomerative hierarchical clustering method by optimizing the average silhouette width
Fatima Batool
An agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) framework and algorithm named HOSil based on a new linkage metric optimized by the average silhouette width (ASW) index is proposed.…