Dear All,i applied "NbClust", to my data to find optimum number of clusters, and got following resultsNow, i don't know how to read these results. more precisely, i would like to know, how to see which method is more precise for my data considering these index values.your help is needed...thanks in advance Eliza Botto > dput(Eliza)structure(list(All.index = structure(c(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, > 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1.57420409872312, 18.4369535290079, 0.575306409776012, > 0.154801385171855, 47.0366288760456, 0.445872832260952, 0.455568929239984, > 12.5788269491759, 0.0386469849302515, 23.895102388496, 0.160816354234123, > 12.9919540223888, 2.08759524116452, 0.241089430470183, 297.416151736543, > 464.769488374469, 338.423228479907, 292.029427827246, 804.090489472644, > 704.121261336554, 672.777609724726, 771.704824305251, 704.886967155974, > 1637.30331617449, 1592.62378687222, 2515.53485000163, 2459.80121343256, > 2351.42304992051, 348.859869095671, 24.817368418556, 40.9436467413941, > 674.602583838734, 17.7125560171934, 38.8962365664246, 104.394480270329, > 10.2615719469736, 533.92169450933, 25.2998707475191, 251.899870422438, > 21.6939745026919, 11.2543068170719, 47.9401160432539, -1.29296216290655, > -0.153576035293354, -15.1277587386182, -26.2504749449924, -8.30280121573777, > -21.4495487319108, -31.205204175! 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ex.CCC", "index.Scott", "index.Marriot", "index.TrCovW", "index.TraceW", "index.Friedman", "index.Rubin", "index.Cindex", "index.DB", "index.Silhouette", "index.Duda", "index.Pseudot2", "index.Beale", "index.Ratkowsky", "index.Ball", "index.ptbiserial", "index.Frey", "index.McClain", "index.Dunn", "index.Hubert", "index.SDindex", "index.Dindex", "index.SDbw"))), All.CriticalValues = structure(c(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 0.914000830612667, 0.937766785534327, 0.905827446964113, 0.828408045832635, 0.909123414786052, 0.876165895064211, 0.812066111397506, 0.925650813821241, 0.620117668912417, 0.871182750461693, 0.563941389391564, 0.872493486752618, 0.903529636828181, 0.824764281366631, 10.1618182202374, 16.7898922234103, 8.94081934504153, 4.14269163682246, 9.39630293442772, 6.21880017000134, 3.70282933302707, 12.6103948225117, 1.22519434659501, 5.91459137454402, 0.773233919005128, 5.99175480678967, 8.64841516914552, 4.03688511888159, 0, ! 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0), .Dim = c(14L, 4L), .Dimnames = list( c("2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10", "11", "12", "13", "14", "15"), c("nc.CritValue", "CritValue_Duda", "CritValue_PseudoT2", "Fvalue_Beale"))), Best.nc = structure(c(6, 47.0366, 13, 2515.5349, 6, 656.89, 3, -0.1536, 11, 2730.0882, 3, 0, 3, 434907.4611, 3, 4775.6613, 6, 393597.945, 13, -53.2551, 10, 0.0142, 13, 0.5164, 3, 0.6677, 10, 1.9102, 10, -0.953, 10, -8.5497, 2, 0.5132, 3, 3446.091, 3, 0.5735, 3, 6.7573, 3, 0.131, 13, 0.002, 0, 0, 13, 4.559, 0, 0, 2, 1.3422), .Dim = c(2L, 26L), .Dimnames = list( c("Number_clusters", "Value_Index"), c("index.KL", "index.CH", "index.Hartigan", "index.CCC", "index.Scott", "index.Marriot", "index.TrCovW", "index.TraceW", "index.Friedman", "index.Rubin", "index.Cindex", "index.DB", "index.Silhouette", "index.Duda", "index.PseudoT2", "index.Beale", "index.Ratkowsky", "index.Ball", "index.PtBiserial", "index.Frey", "index.McClain", "index.Dunn", "index.Hubert", "index.SDindex", "index.D! index", "index.SDbw" )))), .Names = c("All.index", "All.CriticalValues", "Best.nc"))
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