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The authors provide some 2-approximation algorithm for an intractable problem to which one can reduce the problem of partitioning a vector set in Euclidean space into the two subsets (clusters) having the minimum sum of distance squares.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Dolgushev, A.V. Kel’manov, 2011, published in Diskretnyi Analiz i Issledovanie Operatsii, 2011, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 29–40.
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Dolgushev, A.V., Kel’manov, A.V. An approximation algorithm for solving a problem of cluster analysis. J. Appl. Ind. Math. 5, 551–558 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990478911040107
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