unsupervised classification

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Classification in which no prior information about membership of groups is known.
Notes:
  1. The number of groups may be specified.
  2. Algorithms for unsupervised classification include k-means cluster analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis.
Source:
PAC, 2016, 88, 407. (Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)) on page 433 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'unsupervised classification' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.10146 RIS BibTex EndNote
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