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2005 May 30
2
"FANNY" function in R package "cluster"
...ar All, I am attempting to use the FANNY fuzzy clustering function in R (Kaufman & Rousseeuw, 1990), found in the "cluster" package. I have run into a variety of difficulties; the two most crucial difficulties are enumerated below. 1. Where is the 'm' parameter in FANNY? In _Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis_ (1990) by Kaufman & Rousseeuw, the authors discuss the FANNY algorithm. On pages 189-190, they attempt to demonstrate an equivalence between Fuzzy c-Means (FCM) and FANNY. In doing so they, appear to be assuming that the value of the 'm...
2004 May 26
0
AW: Question
A small comment: The code of Agnes is written in Fortran. Following book give more details: Kaufman, L. and Rousseeuw, P.J. (1990). _Finding Groups in Data: An Introduction to Cluster Analysis_. Wiley, New York. The 'hclust' function is based an Algorithm contributed to STATLIB by F. Murtagh and the code is written in C. Probably the differences between agnes and hclust causes from the different code and the different imp...