Help on function dbscan in module sklearn.cluster.dbscan_:
dbscan(X, eps=0.5, min_samples=5, metric='minkowski', algorithm='auto', leaf_size=30, p=2, sample_weight=None, n_jobs=1)
Perform DBSCAN clustering from vector array or distance matrix.
Read more in the :ref:`User Guide <dbscan>`.
Parameters
----------
X : array or sparse (CSR) matrix of shape (n_samples, n_features), or array of shape (n_samples, n_samples)
A feature array, or array of distances between samples if
``metric='precomputed'``.
eps : float, optional
The maximum distance between two samples for them to be considered
as in the same neighborhood.
min_samples : int, optional
The number of samples (or total weight) in a neighborhood for a point
to be considered as a core point. This includes the point itself.
metric : string, or callable
The metric to use when calculating distance between instances in a
feature array. If metric is a string or callable, it must be one of
the options allowed by metrics.pairwise.pairwise_distances for its
metric parameter.
If metric is "precomputed", X is assumed to be a distance matrix and
must be square. X may be a sparse matrix, in which case only "nonzero"
elements may be considered neighbors for DBSCAN.
algorithm : {'auto', 'ball_tree', 'kd_tree', 'brute'}, optional
The algorithm to be used by the NearestNeighbors module
to compute pointwise distances and find nearest neighbors.
See NearestNeighbors module documentation for details.
leaf_size : int, optional (default = 30)
Leaf size passed to BallTree or cKDTree. This can affect the speed
of the construction and query, as well as the memory required
to store the tree. The optimal value depends
on the nature of the problem.
p : float, optional
The power of the Minkowski metric to be used to calculate distance
between points.
sample_weight : array, shape (n_samples,), optional
Weight of each sample, such that a sample with a weight of at least
``min_samples`` is by itself a core sample; a sample with negative
weight may inhibit its eps-neighbor from being core.
Note that weights are absolute, and default to 1.
n_jobs : int, optional (default = 1)
The number of parallel jobs to run for neighbors search.
If ``-1``, then the number of jobs is set to the number of CPU cores.
Returns
-------
core_samples : array [n_core_samples]
Indices of core samples.
labels : array [n_samples]
Cluster labels for each point. Noisy samples are given the label -1.
Notes
-----
See examples/cluster/plot_dbscan.py for an example.
This implementation bulk-computes all neighborhood queries, which increases
the memory complexity to O(n.d) where d is the average number of neighbors,
while original DBSCAN had memory complexity O(n).
Sparse neighborhoods can be precomputed using
:func:`NearestNeighbors.radius_neighbors_graph
<sklearn.neighbors.NearestNeighbors.radius_neighbors_graph>`
with ``mode='distance'``.
References
----------
Ester, M., H. P. Kriegel, J. Sander, and X. Xu, "A Density-Based
Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise".
In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery
and Data Mining, Portland, OR, AAAI Press, pp. 226-231. 1996