The impact of neglecting feature scaling in k-means clustering

Chantha Wongoutong

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0310839

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The impact of neglecting feature scaling in k-means clustering

Chantha Wongoutong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fscictw@ku.ac.th

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-7947

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The impact of neglecting feature scaling in k-means clustering

Chantha Wongoutong

Published: December 6, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310839

About the Authors

Chantha Wongoutong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fscictw@ku.ac.th

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5985-7947

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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