Re: [R] Cluster analysis, defining center seeds or number of clusters

2009-06-11 Thread Christian Hennig
Dear Alex, actually fixing the number of clusters in kmeans end then ending up with a smaller number because of empty clusters is not a standard method of estimating the number of clusters. I may happen (as apparently in some of your examples), but it is generally rather unusual. In most cases

[R] Cluster analysis, defining center seeds or number of clusters

2009-06-11 Thread amvds
I use kmeans to classify spectral events in high and low 1/3 octave bands: #Do cluster analysis CyclA<-data.frame(LlowA,LhghA) CntrA<-matrix(c(0.9,0.8,0.8,0.75,0.65,0.65), nrow = 3, ncol=2, byrow=TRUE) ClstA<-kmeans(CyclA,centers=CntrA,nstart=50,algorithm="MacQueen") This works well when the actu