Re: [R] Clustering with ordinal data

2010-10-19 Thread Michael Bedward
Hello Steve, > I've been asked to help evaluate a vegetation data set, specifically to > examine it for community similarity. The initial problem I see is that the > data is ordinal.   At best this only captures a relative ranking of > abundance and ordinal ranks are assigned after data collection

Re: [R] Clustering with ordinal data

2010-10-19 Thread Steve_Friedman
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Re: [R] Clustering with ordinal data

2010-10-19 Thread Phil Spector
Steve - Take a look at daisy() in the cluster package. - Phil Spector Statistical Computing Facility Department of Statistics UC Be

Re: [R] Clustering with ordinal data

2008-02-15 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 10:45 -0800, Tim Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any clustering package in R that can cluster with ordinal data? > > thanks! daisy() in recommended package 'cluster' can generate dissimilarities for ordinal data using Gower's general (dis)similarity coefficient for mixed da