similar to: plot hclust - canberra dist + median linkage

I use the following code to scan a (limited) parameter space of clustering strategies ... data <- read.table(... dataTranspose <- t(data) distMeth <- c("euclidean", "maximum", "manhattan", "canberra", "binary" ) clustMeth <- c("ward",

Hello, a. when I use hclust with the methods media, centroid, and mcquitty, and plot the results, the dendrograms have lines that are crossing each other. Is this ok? b. My next question refers to plot.dendrogram: How can I use parameters as "hang" or "cex" here? E.g. for st <- as.dendrogram(subtreeshc[[x]]) I would like to have something like this, where cex and hang

Dear R community, I would be greatful if somebody could shed light on the following. I have created a set of 6 points to check how centroid agglomeration works in cluster analysis: > Y <- data.frame(x=c(-1,1,1,-1,10,12),y=c(1,1,-1,-1,0,0)) It is quite intuitive to understand that the last clusters to be joined will be {1,2,3,4} with {5,6}. Now, the centroid for the first cluster has

Dear R users, I have noted a difference in the merge distances given by hclust using centroid method. For the following data: x<-c(1009.9,1012.5,1011.1,1011.8,1009.3,1010.6) and using Euclidean distance, hclust using centroid method gives the following results: > x.dist<-dist(x) > x.aah<-hclust(x.dist,method="centroid") > x.aah$merge [,1] [,2] [1,] -3 -6

There seems to be a bug in hclust (package mva) for clustering methods 'median' and 'centroid'. I have written a clustering program in C and discovered that the results for 'median' differ from those of hclust in R. I used a third program, written by someone else in Pascal, and that program agrees with the output of my program. I found yet another clustering program that

Dear UseRs,i want to find centroid of clusters, which i generated by hclust. Is there a way doing that? i took mean to elements in each cluster to get centroid but i am not sure if i am right? thanks in advanceeliza [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear All, I am using a specific approach for my master thesis. In essence, a supervised reclassification is used as an intermediate step to find chemical parameters which are able to reclassify defined groups. These variables will be used in a next step where location and scale estimators of the groups are important. Traditionally linear discriminant analysis is used for reclassification which

Hi list! I'm computing multivar. distances from a set of centroids to a (large) set of individuals. I'm now just using rbind to create a matrix (x) with the centroid and the individuals, then run as.matrix(dist(x)) and finally select the appropriate columns, as I'm not interested on the distances among individuals. Therefore, this procedure implies a waste of computing time. Is there

plot.hclust: Setting up a window for a dendrogram assumes the first link is the shortest and the last is the longest. This is not always the case when the clustering was done with hclust, method="median" or method="centroid", and the dendrogram sometimes doesn't fit within the window. I propose the fix listed below. src/main/ --- plot.c Wed Sep 17 01:03:39 2003 +++

Canberra distance is defined in function `dist' (standard library `mva') as sum(|x_i - y_i| / |x_i + y_i|) Obviously this is undefined for cases where both x_i and y_i are zeros. Since double zeros are common in many data sets, this is a nuisance. In our field (from which the distance is coming), it is customary to remove double zeros: contribution to distance is zero when both x_i

Canberra distance is defined in function `dist' (standard library `mva') as sum(|x_i - y_i| / |x_i + y_i|) Obviously this is undefined for cases where both x_i and y_i are zeros. Since double zeros are common in many data sets, this is a nuisance. In our field (from which the distance is coming), it is customary to remove double zeros: contribution to distance is zero when both x_i

Helo there. I am using kmeans of base package to cluster my customers. As the results of kmeans is dependent on the initial centroid, may I know: 1) how can we specify the centroid in the R function? (I don't want random starting pt) 2) how to determine the optimal (if not, a good) centroid to start with? (I am not after the fixed seed solution as it only ensure that the

Hello, I analyse some free-sorting data so I use hierarchical clustering. I want to compare my proximity matrix with the tree representation to evalute the fitting. (stress, cophenetic correlation (pearson's correlation)...) "The cophenetic similarity of two objects a and b is defined as the similarity level at wich objects a and b become members of the same cluster during the course of

Good afternoon, I ran heatmap and hclust on the same matrix x (strictly, I ran heatmap(x), and hclust(dist(t(x))), and realized that the two dendrograms were slightly different, in that the left-right arrangement of one pair of subclusters (columns) was reversed in the two functions (but all individual columns were grouped correctly). Looking through the code for heatmap as a most definite

I have obtained shapefiles for Indian states from here: http://www.maptell.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=159&func=fileinfo&filecatid=115&parent=category Problem: I want to extract centroid coordinates for each State, but there is some coding problem with the shapefiles that prevents this. #Code: #After extracting the shapefiles from the india_state.zip file, then:

Dear Help List, Thanks in advance for reading...I hope my questions are not too ignorant. I have an experiment looking at evolution of wing size [centroid] in fruitflies and the effect of 6 different experimental treatments [treatment]. I have five replicate populations [replic] in each treatment and have reared the flies in two different temperatures [cond] to assay the wing size, making

If I perform PCA on the 'eurodist' data, should I get an accurate geographic layout of the cities with biplot? (barring inversions, i.e. their is no way to define north.. but you get the idea...) I have a complex distance matrix, and I am thinking about how to cluster it and how to visualize the quality of the resulting clusters. If I could 'see' the clusters in space I could

Hello, supposing that I have two or three clear categories for my data, lets say pet preferece across fish, cat, dog. Lets say most people rate their preference as being mostly one of the categories. I want to do pca on the data to see three 'groups' of people, one group for fish, one for cat and one for dog. I would like to see the odd person who likes both or all three in the

Hello, I need to calculate the centroids of some spatial polygons that I have placed into a Polygons-class object. Is the labeling point in the Polygons-class the centroid of the polygon? Thank you for your help.

Does anyone know how hclust (stats) calculates centroid linkage if only a distance matrix can be used as the input? ...Tao