How would one use Kernel Density Estimation as a 1D clustering method in scikit learn?

Question

I need to cluster a simple univariate data set into a preset number of clusters. Technically it would be closer to binning or sorting the data since it is only 1D, but my bo

Answer 1

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%matplotlib inline

from numpy import array, linspace
from sklearn.neighbors.kde import KernelDensity
from matplotlib.pyplot import plot

a = array([10,11,9,23,21,11,45,20,11,12]).reshape(-1, 1)
kde = KernelDensity(kernel='gaussian', bandwidth=3).fit(a)
s = linspace(0,50)
e = kde.score_samples(s.reshape(-1,1))
plot(s, e)

from scipy.signal import argrelextrema
mi, ma = argrelextrema(e, np.less)[0], argrelextrema(e, np.greater)[0]
print "Minima:", s[mi]
print "Maxima:", s[ma]
> Minima: [ 17.34693878  33.67346939]
> Maxima: [ 10.20408163  21.42857143  44.89795918]

Your clusters therefore are

print a[a < mi[0]], a[(a >= mi[0]) * (a <= mi[1])], a[a >= mi[1]]
> [10 11  9 11 11 12] [23 21 20] [45]

and visually, we did this split:

plot(s[:mi[0]+1], e[:mi[0]+1], 'r',
     s[mi[0]:mi[1]+1], e[mi[0]:mi[1]+1], 'g',
     s[mi[1]:], e[mi[1]:], 'b',
     s[ma], e[ma], 'go',
     s[mi], e[mi], 'ro')

We cut at the red markers. The green markers are our best estimates for the cluster centers.