Yes, that seems like a sensible idea to me.
Terry Therneau
On Sat, 2011-12-03 at 12:00 +0100, r-help-request at r-project.org
wrote:> The problem: There are no a priori groupings to run a classification
> on
>
> My solution:
>
> This is a non-R code question, so I appreciate any thoughts. I have
> used pam in the cluster package proceeded by sillohouette to find the
> optimum number of clusters on scaled and centered data. I have
> followed
> this by a classification tree analysis with rpart to discern which
> variables drive the clustering on the original data. Is this a
> sensible
> approach?
> many thanks,
>
> Stephen Sefick
>
