Research Article

A Clustering Method for Data in Cylindrical Coordinates

Table 3

Comparison of performances of the four methods using the iris dataset.

Attributes cyk-means Fixed cyk-means -means Kernel -means

Sepal length, sepal width, petal length0.55430.69610.65690.6614
Sepal width, petal length, petal width0.56270.79000.74620.7590
Petal length, petal width, sepal length0.41790.71140.73020.7359
Petal width, sepal length, sepal width0.51710.61210.61040.6099

ARI are the mean of 200 runs with random initial values. The best estimations are bold. “Attributes” indicates three attributes used in clustering.