getElbows: Given a decreasingly sorted vector, return the given number...

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References

Description

Given a decreasingly sorted vector, return the given number of elbows

Usage

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getElbows(dat, n = 3, threshold = FALSE, plot = TRUE, main = "", ...)

Arguments

dat

a input vector (e.g. a vector of standard deviations), or a input feature matrix

n

the number of returned elbows

threshold

either FALSE or a number. If threshold is a number, then all the elements in d that are not larger than the threshold will be ignored.

plot

logical. When T, it depicts a scree plot with highlighted elbows

main

a string of the plot title

Value

a vector of length n

Author(s)

Youngser Park <youngser@jhu.edu>

References

Zhu, Mu and Ghodsi, Ali (2006), Automatic dimensionality selection from the scree plot via the use of profile likelihood, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Volume 51 Issue 2, pp 918-930, November, 2006.


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