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Hi, I have a 1.000 observations with 10 attributes (of different types: numeric, dicotomic, categorical ecc..) and a measure M. I need to cluster these observations in order to assign a new observation (with the same 10 attributes but not the measure) to a cluster. I want to calculate for the new observation a measure as the average of the meausures M of the observations in the cluster

Hi, According to daisy function from cluster documentation, it can compute dissimilarity when NA (missing) value(s) is present. http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/cluster/html/daisy.html But why when I tried this code library(cluster) x <- c(1.115,NA,NA,0.971,NA) y <- c(NA,1.006,NA,NA,0.645) df <- as.data.frame(rbind(x,y)) daisy(df,metric="gower") It gave this

Hi, I'm a PhD student and I want to use the function 'daisy' from the package 'cluster' to compute dissimilarities. My variables are of mixed types so I use the argument 'stand' in daisy to define the type of my variables. I have the following error message : Warning message: binary variable(s) 13, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35,

Hi, I have 100000 units with 10 attributes (attr1, attr2, attr3, etc...) For instance: unit attr1 attr2 attr3 ... 1 a ww 12 2 a re 11 3 b ww 09 4 c yt 02 5 a qw 02 ... I'd like to answer to the question: a) what are the most frequent combinations of attributes? b) How could I describe the relations

Hi All - I am using the daisy function from the cluster library to create a dissimilarity matrix. I'm going to use that matrix to run a cluster analysis. My participants are identified with the variable, hhid. However, when I try to keep hhid in the dataset that I use to create the dissimilarity matrix, daisy uses it to create the matrix rather than ignoring it as an ID variable. I need to

Dear R-helpers, First of all, a happy new year to everyone! I succesfully used the daisy function (from package cluster) to find which two rows from a dataframe differ by only one value, and I now want to come up with a simpler way to find _which_ value makes the difference between any such pair of two rows. Consider a very small example (the actual data counts thousands of rows): input

Hi, I have two groups, and I want to find the dissimiarity between the members of the two groups. Since I have mixed level variables on the members, I opt for the daisy function in the cluster package. Let's pretend that the following represent my groups: x <- data.frame(sex=factor(c(1,0,0,1,0,1), levels=0:1, labels=c('Male','Female'), ordered=FALSE),

Dear Rhelp,   I did a daisy on 5 lifestyle variables, 3 of which were nominal and 2 were ordinal and assigned types “nominal” and “ordinal” for the variables, respectively.  I got an output indicating their types as “I” for interval(?). Doing it on the Rdata example “flower” gave the same types in the output as the types they were assigned to.  Why is this so? Below are the codes and outputs.  

Hi, I'm trying to use a similarity matrix (triangular) as input for pam() or fanny() clustering algorithms. The problem is that this algorithms can only accept a dissimilarity matrix, normally generated by daisy(). However, daisy only accept 'data matrix or dataframe. Dissimilarities will be computed between the rows of x'. Is there any way to say to that your data are already a

Hello, I would like to use my own dissimilarity matrix in a PAM clustering with method "pam" (cluster package) instead of a dissimilarity matrix created by daisy. I read data from a file containing the dissimilarity values using "read.csv". This creates a matrix (alternatively: an array or vector) which is not accepted by "pam": A call

I am currently using the function daisy in package cluster to create a dissimilarity matrix because my multivariate dataset contain missing data and variables of various types including factors, symmetric and asymmetric binary and quantitative. This is a step prior to using pco within ecodist. There is a warning which comes twice ">NAs introduced by coercion" I've used

Hi, I'm using the cluster library to examine multivariate data. The data come from a connection to a postgres database, and I did a short R script to do the analisys. With the cluster version included in R1.8.0, daisy worked well for my data, but now, when I call daisy, I obtain the following messages: --------- Error in if (any(sx == 0)) { : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed In

Hello, I am running DAISY in R and using the GOWER metric since I am working with mixed variables. I am wondering if there is a way to weight the different variables. I see that there is a weight value for Gower but do not know if this is how to weight the diffrent variables with different weighting values. Please advise if there is a way to weight the different variables. Thank you. -- View

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

Hi the list, I need to compute Gower distance between a specific individual and all the other individual. The function DAISY from package cluster compute all the pairwise dissimilarities of a population. If the population is N individuals, that is arround N^2 distances to compute. I need to compute the distance between a specific individual and all the other individual, that is only N

Hello all, would someone please tell me why the following code doesn't "work" (i.e. do what i expected!). I wanted to convert numeric variables in a matrix to ordered (for input as nominal variables into the 'daisy' program). Why does the following code seem to work, but the "is.ordered" command reports that the variables are not ordered (factors)?? > xxx <-

Hello, I want to make a fuzzy classification from a dissimilarity matrix (calculated with daisy from package 'cluster'). I have tried to use fanny (package cluster) but I have the same problems than described in a previous message (http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/05/4546.html) i.e. it always gives me two clusters in the results (even if k is different from 2) with the same

Hi! I am trying to calculate a dissimilarity matrix using daisy. The matrix vectver is binary as i test with: > levels(as.factor(vectver)) [1] "0" "1" But the call to daisy gives me the following error message.: > dfl1 <- daisy(vectver, type = list(asymm = c(1:length(vectver[,1])))) Error in daisy(vectver, type = list(asymm = c(1:length(vectver[, 1])))) : at least

I'm clustering rather large data sets and would like to cut the dendrograms to get a better view of specific components. I calculate the dissimilarity matrix using daisy() because I have a mixture of variable types: factors, ordered factors and numerical variables. If I want one dendrogram, I use agnes() for the agglomerative nesting and pltree() to draw the dendrogram. That way, I get the

Hi folks, I tried for the first time hclust. Unfortunately, with missing data in my data file, it doesn't seem to work. I found no information about how to consider missing data. Omission of all missings is not really an option as I would loose to many cases. Thanks in advance Holger -- View this message in context: