Research Article

A Clustering Method for Data in Cylindrical Coordinates

Table 2

Parameters estimated by the cyk-means, the fixed cyk-means, and the -means.

Method

cyk-means12007.5230.97460.19420.50650.09417
23003.9791.4950.14920.1866
34001.98612.690.49660.10041.0050.1997

Fixed cyk-means1200.21.0010.4995
2299.91.501
34001.9960.49980.9995

-means1184.851.0910.1871
2253.651.358
3461.51.7040.44060.9477

The results are the mean of twenty runs on randomly generated initial values. is a cluster number. is the azimuth of the centroid of the th cluster. . The best estimations are bold.