Recently, Chaturvedi, Green and Carroll (2001) presented a nonparametric approach to deriving clusters from categorical data using a new clustering procedure called K-modes. Huang (1998) proposed the K-modes clustering algorithm. In this note, we demonstrate the equivalence of the two K-modes procedures.
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Huang, Z., Ng, M. A Note on K-modes Clustering. Journal of Classification 20, 257–261 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00357-003-0014-4
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