Hierarchical.sim.resampling: Function to compute similarity indices using resampling...

In mosclust: Model Order Selection for Clustering

Function to compute similarity indices using resampling techniques and hierarchical clustering.

Description

Function to compute similarity indices using resampling techniques and hierarchical clustering. A vector of similarity measures between pairs of clusterings perturbed with resampling techniques is computed for a given number of clusters. The fraction of the resampled data (without replacement), the similarity measure and the type of hierarchical clustering may be selected.

Usage

Hierarchical.sim.resampling(X, c = 2, nsub = 100, f = 0.8, s = sFM, 
                            distance = "euclidean", hmethod = "ward.D")

Arguments

X	matrix of data (variables are rows, examples columns)
c	number of clusters
nsub	number of subsamples
f	fraction of the data resampled without replacement
s	similarity function to be used. It may be one of the following: - sFM (Fowlkes and Mallows) - sJaccard (Jaccard) - sM (matching coefficient) (default Fowlkes and Mallows)
distance	it must be one of the two: "euclidean" (default) or "pearson" (that is 1 - Pearson correlation)
hmethod	the agglomeration method to be used. This parameter is used only by the hierarchical clustering algorithm. This should be one of the following: "ward.D", "single", "complete", "average", "mcquitty", "median" or "centroid", according of the hclust method of the package stats.

Value

vector of the computed similarity measures (length equal to nsub)

Author(s)

Giorgio Valentini [e-mail]

See Also

Hierarchical.sim.projection, Hierarchical.sim.noise

Examples

library("clusterv")
# Synthetic data set generation
M <- generate.sample6 (n=20, m=10, dim=600, d=3, s=0.2);
# computing a vector of similarity indices with 2 clusters:
v2 <- Hierarchical.sim.resampling(M, c = 2, nsub = 20, f = 0.8, s = sFM)
# computing a vector of similarity indices with 3 clusters:
v3 <- Hierarchical.sim.resampling(M, c = 3, nsub = 20, f = 0.8, s = sFM)
# computing a vector of similarity indices with 2 clusters using the Jaccard index
v2J <- Hierarchical.sim.resampling(M, c = 2, nsub = 20, f = 0.8, s = sJaccard)
#  2 clusters using the Jaccard index and Pearson correlation
v2JP <- Hierarchical.sim.resampling(M, c = 2, nsub = 20, f = 0.8, s = sJaccard, 
                                    distance="pearson")

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