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2007 Jul 06
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Clustering nested data
...used classification trees to examine this data, which I like because
of it's predictive abilities for later 'unknown' datasets. However, my
concern is that the mean species attributes (columns Diameter:Avgnumtrees in
attached table) are associated with the tree species (nested?)(column
Treespecies in attached table) and are not independent attributes, but are
directly associated with the species listed in that row.
My question is, what is the best way to conduct a clustering (I have also
tried hclust, cclust and flexclust) or CART model with this sort of nested
data?
Also, what is the prefe...