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From: greenba@gambia.crd.ge.com (ben a green)
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Subject: Re: Clustering
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Date: 21 May 91 14:10:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: kavuri@lips.ecn.purdue.edu's message of 20 May 91 20:30:08 GMT

In article <1991May20.203008.27681@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> kavuri@lips.ecn.purdue.edu (Surya N Kavuri ) writes:

     Is there any reason why clustering is always(atleast what I
     saw in books) unsupervised ?

Clustering is a way to sort things into groups that share similarities.
If you already know the classes to which the things belong, what's the
point of trying to cluster them?

Ben
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