As humans, we have innate faculties that allow us to efficiently segment groups of objects. Computers, to some degree, can
be programmed with similar categorical capabilities, which stem from exploratory data analysis. Out of the various subsets
of data reasoning, clustering provides insight into the structure and relationships of input samples situated in a number
of distributions. To determine these relationships, many clustering methods rely on one or more human inputs; the most important
being the number of distributions,
c, to seek. This work investigates a technique for estimating the number of clusters from a general type of data called relational
data. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Keywords Data analysis - Pattern recognition - Clustering - Cluster tendency - Cluster count extraction