Kmeans (Initialise centroids)
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I have a dataset (X) where i use k means and save the centroids in matrix ( C), then I want to use the same centroids to cluster a different dataset. Can you please tell me the syntax? I know that I have to use 'start' but I am not doing it in a correct way.
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Akira Agata
on 20 Sep 2019
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% Apply k-means clustering to data set X (e.g num of classes = 2), and obtain centroids C
numClass = 2;
[cluster,C] = kmeans(X,numClass);
% Calculate distance from each row of new data set X2 and C
d = pdist2(X2,C);
% Cluster the data set X2 based on the distance from the centroids C
[~,cluster2] = min(d,[],2);
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Akira Agata
on 6 Oct 2019
I think the same strategy should work. Here is an 5-cluster example :
% Sample data
X = rand(100,2); % dataset1
X2 = rand(100,2); % dataset2
% Apply k-means clustering to dataset1 (e.g num of classes = 5), and obtain centroids C
numClass = 5;
[cluster,C] = kmeans(X,numClass);
% Calculate distance from each row of new dataset (dataset2) against the centroids C
d = pdist2(X2,C);
% Clustering the dataset2 based on the centroids C
[~,cluster2] = min(d,[],2);
% Visualize the result
figure
gscatter(X2(:,1),X2(:,2),cluster2)
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