Title

Partitions of Partitions.

Authors

Gordon, A.D.; Vichi, M.

Abstract

Abstract: The paper presents methodology for analyzing a set of partitions of the same set of objects, by dividing them into classes of partitions that are similar to one another. Two different definitions are given for the consensus partition which summarizes each class of partitions. The classes are obtained using either constrained or unconstrained clustering algorithms. Two applications of the methodology are described.

Subjects

PARTITIONS (Mathematics); ALGORITHMS

Publication

Journal of Classification, 1998, Vol 15, Issue 2, p265

ISSN

0176-4268

Publication type

Academic Journal

DOI

10.1007/s003579900034