>>>>> "TG" == Tal Galili <tal.gal...@gmail.com>
>>>>> on Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:09:17 +0300 writes:
TG> Hello Martin Maechler and All,
TG> A simple question (I hope):
TG> How can I compute the "sum of the dissimilarities" that appears in the
pam
TG> command (from the cluster package) ?
TG> Is it the "manhattan" distance (such as the one implemented by "dist") ?
well, it first depends if 'x' in pam(x, k, dist, metric, ...)
is *itself* a dissimilarity object or not.
--> help(daisy) and help(dist)
If it is *not* --- which I assume from your question ---
then the answer depends on the 'metric' argument of pam().
As you did not mention that, I assume you left 'metric' at its
default which is "euclidean", i.e.,
not "manhattan".
TG> I am asking since I am running clustering on a dataset. I found 7
medoids
TG> with the pam command, and from it I have the medoid to which each
TG> observation belongs to. But when I check it, I find only (about) 90% of
TG> observations has the minimum manhattan distance to the medoids that pam
TG> predicted.
TG> If this is the manhattan distance that is used, I will create some toy
data
TG> to see if I can reproduce this.
Yes, specifying some reproducible toy data and specific R code
is almost always useful and typically more productive when
asking such questions by e-mail.
Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
TG> Thanks,
TG> Tal
TG> ----------------------------------------------
TG> My contact information:
TG> Tal Galili
TG> Phone number: 972-50-3373767
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TG> http://www.r-statistics.com/
TG> http://www.talgalili.com
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