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X-Means is K-Means with an efficient estimation of the number of clusters. For more information see:
Dan Pelleg, Andrew W. Moore: X-means: Extending K-means with Efficient Estimation of the Number of Clusters. In: Seventeenth International Conference on Machine Learning, 727-734, 2000.
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