Medoid
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article is orphaned as few or no other articles link to it. Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. (November 2006) |
Medoids are representative objects of a data set. The term is used in computer science in fuzzy clustering algorithms.
Basically, the algorithm finds the center of a cluster and takes the element closest to the center as "the medoid" after which, the distances to the other points are computed.
