Faisal N Jawdat
2006-Aug-25 06:49 UTC
Re: [ANN] acts_as_clusterable plugin allows easy clustering
On Aug 24, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Bill wrote:> Can someone explain in simple terms what clustering is and why a > person might use this?cluster analysis refers to a number of statistical techniques for exploratory data analysis. given n (large) objects, you can group them into m (m << n) groups of "similar" objects so you can perform statistical studies of the groups. http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stcluan.html -faisal --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---