Abstract
Abstract The concept of centroid is the multivariate equivalent of the mean. Just like the mean, the centroid of a cloud of points minimizes the sum of the squared distances from the points of the cloud to a point in the space. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This article is categorized under: Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Multivariate Analysis Statistical Models > Multivariate Models
Keywords
CentroidMultivariate statisticsMultivariate analysisStatisticsPoint cloudMathematicsPoint (geometry)Computer scienceArtificial intelligenceGeometry
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- 259-260
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Hervé Abdi
(2009).
Centroids.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Statistics
, 1
(2)
, 259-260.
https://doi.org/10.1002/wics.31
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- 10.1002/wics.31