Re: [R] cluster size

2009-12-11 Thread Tal Galili
Hello Karuna, Christian answer was great and very detailed. One more approach you might want to try is using the K-medoids algorithm instead of the K-means. That can be used through the pam command (from the cluster package) See more here: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/cluster/htm

Re: [R] cluster size

2009-12-11 Thread Christian Hennig
Dear Ms Karunambigai, the kmeans algorithm depends on random initialisation. There are two basic strategies that can be applied in order to make your results reproducible: 1) Fix the random number generator by means of set.seed (see ?set.seed) before you run kmeans. The problem with this is tha

[R] cluster size

2009-12-11 Thread karuna m
hi r-help, i am doing kmeans clustering in stats. i tried for five clusters clustering using: kcl1 <- kmeans(as1[,c("contlife","somlife","agglife","sexlife",     "rellife","hordlife","doutlife","symtlife","washlife",    "chcklife","rptlife","countlife","colt