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I am using DIANA/DAISY/GOWER. Some of my categorical data include NULLS. When assessing disimilarity, these NULLS are considered similar. I do not want these NULLS to contribute towards similarity. Instead is there a way for these NULLS to each be considered different so as to contribute to disimiliarity and not simillarity? Also, I do not want to change these NULLS in the data as I need them for...

I''m a fairly visual person, and I have a piece of paper with many boxes and arrows with labels like "has many" and "belongs to" for my database models. It''s messy, but it works. What I keep looking for--weeks, actually, I''m certain it''s out there, but I haven''t hit on the right set of Google query terms :)--is something that will

Hi, I need to run a PCoA (PCO) for a data set wich has both positive and negative values for variables. I  could not find any distancecoefficient other than euclidean distace running for the data set. Are there any other coefficient works with negtive values.Also I cannot get summary out put (the eigen values) for PCO as for PCA.   Thanks. Dilshan [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello folks, I have been asked about the resilience of samba clients when faced with a domain controller failure. My client's environment has multiple Windows Domain Controllers (we'll call them dc1 - dc9). Assuming that domain replication operates as expected (and does, from Windows workstation point of view), what should I expect if (when) the domain controller that initiated a

I have a dissimilarity dataset with the form: 1 1 dissimilarity value 1 2 ... 1 3 1 4 2 2 2 3 2 4 ... I would like to do nonmetric multidimensional scaling with this data, but I am having trouble using this format. I would like to either find a function that accepts this format or find a way to easily convert this format to a matrix for use with existing functions. Thanks!

Is it possible to share a Windows Share of a Samba Unix Share? We have Samba running on a Solaris Box, I can map a drive to the share just fine from a Windows 2000 server. Problem is that I want to in-turn share the Samba share from the Windows box. Reason is ... I have customers on a remote network who are only allowed HTTP and HTTPS outbound on their firewall. And I would like to give them

Dear List: I have a question regarding an MDS procedure that I am accustomed to using. I have searched around the archives a bit and the help doc and still need a little assistance. The package isoMDS is what I need to perform the non-metric scaling, but I am working with similarity matrices, not dissimilarities. The question may end up being resolved simply. Here is a bit of substantive