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Robust k-means
Robust k-means is a variant of classical k-means clustering designed to resist the influence of outliers. By trimming a specified fraction of the most extreme observations before computing cluster centers, it produces stable and meaningful partitions even when the data contain noise, contamination, or heavy-tailed distributions — situations where standard k-means breaks down.
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- Garcia-Escudero, L. A., Gordaliza, A., Matrán, C., & Mayo-Iscar, A. (2008). A general trimming approach to robust cluster analysis. Annals of Statistics, 36(3), 1324–1345. DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS515 ↗