Clustering and Calinski's index
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, David Wartel wrote:
I have to solve a clustering problem. My first step is to determinate the number of clusters, that's why I 'm using the Calinski index ( [tr(b)/(k-1)]/[tr(w)/(k-1)] ) which i try to maximize to have the best number of clusters. A function is already implemented in R to calculate this index : clustIndex(cl,x, index="calinski")
Where is that from? It's not part of R -- package cclust, perhaps?
where cl is the result of a clustering method , for instance: cclust(x,k,itermax,verbose=TRUE,method="kmeans") My probleme is that I can't calculate the Calinski's index when a cluster contains only one datapoint : Error in cov(x[cluster == l, ]) : supply both x and y or a matrix-like x
The programmer forgot drop=FALSE, it would seem.
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