{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/robust-clustering-using-tau-scales","title":"Robust Clustering Using Tau-Scales","arxiv_id":"1906.08198","date":"2019-06-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Juan D. Gonzalez","Victor J. Yohai","Ruben H. Zamar"],"abstract":"K means is a popular non-parametric clustering procedure introduced by Steinhaus (1956) and further developed by MacQueen (1967). It is known, however, that K means does not perform well in the presence of outliers. Cuesta-Albertos et al (1997) introduced a robust alternative, trimmed K means, which can be tuned to be robust or efficient, but cannot achieve these two properties simultaneously in an adaptive way. To overcome this limitation we propose a new robust clustering procedure called K Tau Centers, which is based on the concept of Tau scale introduced by Yohai and Zamar (1988). We show that K Tau Centers performs well in extensive simulation studies and real data examples. We also show that the centers found by the proposed method are consistent estimators of the \"true\" centers defined as the minimizers of the the objective function at the population level.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08198v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.08198v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"robust-clustering-using-tau-scales","repo_url":"https://github.com/anevolbap/ktaucenterscpp","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"robust-clustering-using-tau-scales","repo_url":"https://github.com/cran/ktaucenters","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"robust-clustering-using-tau-scales","repo_url":"https://github.com/jdgonzalezwork/ktaucenters","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}