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My question is with respect to mCLUST and the values of BIC and log likelihood. The relevant part of my R script is: ######################### BEGIN MDS ANALYSIS ######################### #load data data <- read.table("Ecoli33_Barry.dis", header = TRUE, row.names = 1) #perform MDS Scaling mds <- metaMDS(data, k = Dimensions, trymax = 20, autotransform =TRUE, noshare = 0.1,

Dear Christian, first of all thank you for your answer. I am going to parse through the pages you told me. Meanwhile I'd like to note that probably it is a good idea to put 2-3 lines of R-code demonstrating such a simple needs somnewhere in docs of `cluster' package. E.g. x<-rnorm(500) ... # output means we have rather 1 claster x<-c(rnorm(500), rnorm(500)+5)

Hi All, I am trying to cluster a one-dimensional data (see the file attached) using Mclust() but got an error message like: >Mclust(x) Error in rep(1, n) : Object "n" not found When I do a simulation sometimes it works sometimes doesn't. >Mclust(c(rnorm(50),rnorm(56,-0.5))) Error in rep(1, n) : Object "n" not found >Mclust(c(rnorm(56),rnorm(56,-0.5))) best

Dear group, I want to use the mclust package on large data, and therefore I want to use a subset in the initial clustering phase. From help(mclust): k: If `k' is specified, the hierarchical clustering phase will use a sample of size `k' of the data in the initial hierarchical clustering phase. The default is to use the entire data set. m2 is a

Dear R users I have a question about how to fit data to a straight line. I tried nls to do it, but it didn't work. The reason I want to fit data to a straight line is that I need to compare AIC or BIC values of the two models (a straight line model vs a nonlinear curve model). Fitting data to a nonlinear curve is straightforward, but I could not figure out how to fit the data to a straight

Dear Developers: I have a question about memory management in R 2.2.1 and am wondering if you would be kind enough to help me understand what is going on. (It has been a few years since I have done software development on Windows, so I apologize in advance if these are easy questions.) ------------- MY SYSTEM ------------- I am currently using R (version 2.2.1) on a PC running Windows 2000

Hi, My questions concern the function 'mclustBIC' which compute BIC for a range of clusters of several models on the given data and the other function 'mclustModel' which choose the best model and the best number of cluster accordind to the results of the previous cited function. 1) When trying the following example (see ?mclustModel), I get negative BIC computed by

Dear All; While using EMclust() in the mclust package, I frequently encountered a program error. A message window popped up with the message " Rgui.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is be created." > version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32

Dear Knowledgeable R Community Members, Please excuse my ignorance, I apologize in advance if this is an easy question, but I am a bit stumped and could use a little guidance. I have a finite mixture modeling problem -- for example, a 2-component gaussian mixture -- where the components have a large overlap, and I am trying to use the "mclust" package to solve this problem. I need

Hi I have two questions, the first perhaps dumber than the second. Firstly, I have a data set, and when I plot a histogram it looks like a normal distribution. So I want to overlay a bell-shaped normal distribution on top of it, to demonstrate how similar it is to the normal distribution. I have read the help on dnorm(), rnorm(), pnorm() etc but still can't figure out how to plot a normal

we have implemented teh following code for determinging the clustering model of a dataset. bicvals <- EMclust( hdata, 7) sumry1 <- summary(bicvals, hdata,7) # summary object for emclust() print(sumry1) This set of code gives the following output classification table: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 1 1 4 1 1 1 which I think means there is 1 gene in the 1st cluster...1 gene in the 2nd cluster ,

Hi all, once more about the old subj :-) My data has too much various distribution families and for every particular experiment I need just to decide whether the data is "quite homogeneous" or it has two or more clusters. I've revisited the following libraries: amap, clust, cclust, mclust, multiv, normix, survey. And I didn't find any ready-to-use general

Hello, I have a concrete statistical question: I have a sample of an univariate mixture of an unknown number (k) of normal distributions, each time with an unknown mean `m_i' and a standard deviation `k * m_i', where k is known factor constant for all the normal distributions. (The `i' is a subscript.) Is there a function in R that can estimate the number of normal distributions k

Dear All 1) I'm fitting spatial CAR models using R2Winbugs and although everything seems to go reasonably well (or I think so) the next message appears from WINBUGS 1.4 window: gen.inits() Command #Bugs: gen.inits cannot be executed (is greyed out) The question is if this message means that something is wrong and the results are consequently wrong, or Can I assume it as a simple warning

Dear R-users, I have a two - dimensional data set which needs to be clustered into groups: I'm searching for groups of points which show a positive correlation (in a twodimensional plot of the data set), but I do not have any knowledge about how many groups there might be. Do you know of a clustering algorithm in R (or in general) which can use a-priori information about the cluster's

Hi, I would like to know if someone knows an extended implementation of k-means in R to find appropriate number of clusters for a given k-dimensional data. Also, I am working on clustering for forecasting, if someone is interested or has knowledge on implementational details please mail me, I would appreciate it. Regards Skanda Kallur "Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I

Hello. I know my dissimilarity matrix but not my original data. Is there any way i could use the clustering function Mclust or EMclust with this dissimilarity matrix? or at least some equivalent of these functions? As this is model based clustering i dont know if it is actually possible to do it without the original data thanks in advance for your help [[alternate HTML version deleted]]

Hello all (especially MCLUS users). I'm trying to make use of the MCLUST package by C. Fraley and A. Raftery. My problem is trying to figure out how the (model) identifier (e.g, EII, VII, VVI, etc.) relates to the covariance matrix. The parameterization of the covariance matrix makes use of the method of decomposition in Banfield and Rraftery (1993) and Fraley and Raftery (2002) where

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My ultimate goal is to best fit time series by comparing AICs and BICs (as in Bayesian) from arima() and nnet(). I looked at the arima.R source code, but I am afraid I do not understand it. What I only miss really is the number of parameters p, where: AIC = n*log(S/n) + 2*p with S the squared residuals and n the number of observations. Can I get p

I'm using R 2.0.1. I looked in the email archives but didn't see anything on this topic. I've noticed a surprising (to me) difference between AIC and BIC: > methods("AIC") [1] AIC.default* AIC.logLik* > methods("BIC") [1] BIC.gls* BIC.lm* BIC.lme* BIC.lmList* BIC.logLik* BIC.nls* The BIC.gls BIC.lm BIC.lme BIC.lmList and BIC.nls functions appear