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Partitional Clustering

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Partitional clustering is a type of clustering algorithms that divide a set of data points into disjoint subsets. Each data point is in exactly one subset.

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Jin, X., Han, J. (2017). Partitional Clustering. In: Sammut, C., Webb, G.I. (eds) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning and Data Mining. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7687-1_637

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