Re: [R] How to map clusters to a correlation matrix

2007-11-20 Thread Serguei Kaniovski
To Walter, I am building a model of voting in the EU Council of Ministers. A voting scenario assumes the probabilities of yes votes, possible different for each country, and correlation coefficient between them. The country variables (data) reflect the background characteristics that are releva

[R] How to map clusters to a correlation matrix

2007-11-20 Thread Serguei Kaniovski
Dear All, I have several socio-economic and geographic variables for the 27 EU countries. I would to use these data to derive a correlation matrix between groups of countries (for a different application). I thought of using kmeans to cluster the groups, and then calibrate between group correlat