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Message-ID: <f8e6ff050803200242x594ad29cg6f4c147d7910dff2@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-20T09:42:57Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: How to plot the dendrogram or tree for kmeans ?
In-Reply-To: <B998A44C8986644EA8029CFE6396A9240100D07E@exqld2-bne.nexus.csiro.au>

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:45 AM,  <Bill.Venables at csiro.au> wrote:
> Why do you think there is one?  kmeans is an agglomerative clustering
>  algorithm, not a recursively dividing one.
>
>  Since there is no clustering hierarchy, so there is no dendrogram.

However, you could create a "clustergram":

@article{schonlau:2002,
	Author = {Schonlau, Matthias},
	Journal = {The Stata Journal},
	Pages = {316-327},
	Title = {The clustergram: A graph for visualizing hierarchical and
non-hierarchical cluster analyses},
	Volume = {3},
	Year = {2002},
        Url = {http://www.schonlau.net/clustergram.html}
}

Hadley

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