Re: [R] Help with clustering

2009-01-27 Thread Darin A. England
Have you tried using the cosine of the angle between two observations as the similarity measure? If you want to account for magnitudes, there is something called the jaccard coefficient (if I remember correctly) that can be used. Darin On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:41:40AM +0100, mau...@alice.it wro

Re: [R] Help with clustering

2009-01-26 Thread Christian Hennig
Generally, how to scale different variables when aggregating them in a dissimilarity measure is strongly dependent on the subject matter, what the aim of clustering and your "cluster comncept" is. This cannot be answered properly on such a mailing list. A standard transformation before computi