{"term":{"id":"10127","title":"fuzzy clustering","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - fuzzy clustering","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.10127","code":"10127","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Classification in which membership of an object in each possible class is given a weight between zero and one.","notes":{"1":"In so-called hard cluster algorithms membership of a group can only take values 0 or 1, but in fuzzy clustering any value between 0 and 1 is allowed subject to the sum of all memberships of an object being 1."},"sources":["PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 429 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-0605)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10127\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10127\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/10127\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'fuzzy clustering' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.10127","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-28T11:25:49+00:00"}}