Often considered more of an art than a science, books on clustering have been dominated by learning through example with techniques chosen almost through trial and error. Even the two most popular, and most related, clustering methods K-Means for partitioning and Ward's method for hierarchical clustering have lacked the theoretical underpinning required to establish a firm relationship between the two methods and relevant interpretation aids. Other approaches, such as spectral clustering or consensus clustering, are considered absolutely unrelated to each other or to the two above...
Often considered more of an art than a science, books on clustering have been dominated by learning through example with techniques chosen almost t...