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Table 3

Results from the NbClust method.

m N I C m C m,w Figure

k-means 4 11 0.0054 0.25 Fig. 6

McQuitty* 15 6 0.0029 0.048 Fig. C.2a
Ward 4 7 0.0059 0.38 Fig. C.2b
Ward2 4 8 0.0069 0.38 Fig. C.2c
Complete 4 9 0.0086 0.44 Fig. C.2d
Average 3 7 0.0123 0.78 Fig. C.2e
Median 2 7 0.0126 2.16 Fig. C.2f
Centroid 2 9 0.0129 2.22 Fig. C.2g
Single 2 8 0.0131 2.26 Fig. C.2h

Notes.The columns are: (1) name of the clustering method; (2) ideal number of clusters; (3) number of indices proposing N; (4, 5) sum (Eq. (17)) and weighted sum (Eq. (18)) of within-cluster variances; and (6) reference to the figure showing the clusters projected to the plane of the sky.

(*)

fragments that are too small relative to the beam size.

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