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by AlexMcP 4394 days ago
What sort of method would be used to cluster those, statistically speaking? Like, given a data set like that, how would you determine if the distribution is multi-modal or unimodal?
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Mean shift clustering, for one. This short PDF provides better insight than wikipedia. Does NOT require you to specify the number of clusters like in K-means:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/CVonline/LOCAL_COPIES/TUZE...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean-shift

Example python code using scikit-learn: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/cluster/plot_me...

Awesome! Thanks for the knowledge