Chapter 6 — Clustering for Unsupervised Pattern Discovery

Advanced Business Analytics

Prof. Xuhu Wan

What’s in this chapter

4 sections, each ~15-20 minutes:

1. Similarity, Distance, and K-Means
2. Hierarchical, DBSCAN, Gaussian Mixture
3. Spectral Clustering and Validation
4. Hierarchical Risk Parity — A Hedge-Fund Application