Niño-Adan, IratxeLanda-Torres, ItziarPortillo, EvaManjarres, DianaMartínez Álvarez, FranciscoTroncoso Lora, AliciaQuintián, HéctorSáez Muñoz, José AntónioCorchado, Emilio2024-07-242024-07-242020Niño-Adan , I , Landa-Torres , I , Portillo , E & Manjarres , D 2020 , Analysis and Application of Normalization Methods with Supervised Feature Weighting to Improve K-means Accuracy . in F Martínez Álvarez , A Troncoso Lora , H Quintián , J A Sáez Muñoz & E Corchado (eds) , 14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications SOCO 2019, Proceedings . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing , vol. 950 , Springer Verlag , pp. 14-24 , 14th International Conference on Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, SOCO 2019 , Seville , Spain , 13/05/19 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20055-8_2conference97830302005412194-5357https://hdl.handle.net/11556/2102Publisher Copyright: © 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Normalization methods are widely employed for transforming the variables or features of a given dataset. In this paper three classical feature normalization methods, Standardization (St), Min-Max (MM) and Median Absolute Deviation (MAD), are studied in different synthetic datasets from UCI repository. An exhaustive analysis of the transformed features’ ranges and their influence on the Euclidean distance is performed, concluding that knowledge about the group structure gathered by each feature is needed to select the best normalization method for a given dataset. In order to effectively collect the features’ importance and adjust their contribution, this paper proposes a two-stage methodology for normalization and supervised feature weighting based on a Pearson correlation coefficient and on a Random Forest Feature Importance estimation method. Simulations on five different datasets reveal that our two-stage proposed methodology, in terms of accuracy, outperforms or at least maintains the K-means performance obtained if only normalization is applied.11enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessconference output10.1007/978-3-030-20055-8_2K-meansNormalizationPearson correlationRandom ForestStandardizationWeighted Euclidean DistanceControl and Systems EngineeringGeneral Computer Sciencehttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065923886&partnerID=8YFLogxK