An Evaluation of Self-Organizing Map Networks as a Robust Alternative to Factor Analysis in Data Mining Applications

Business & Economics

• Data Mining 100%
• Self-organizing Map 90%
• Factor Analysis 85%
• Evaluation 36%
• Alternatives 31%
• Clustering 17%
• K-means Clustering 13%
• Factors 9%

Engineering & Materials Science

• Factor analysis 76%
• Self organizing maps 75%
• Data mining 55%
• K-means clustering 12%
• Network architecture 10%
• Recovery 7%

Social Sciences

• factor analysis 53%
• evaluation 30%