Mahalonobis distance depends on having models for the "clusters" sharing a common dispersion structure. Are you sure that you mean cluster analysis and not discriminant analysis. That is, do you have a "training sample" that is already classified into classes?
Murray Jorgensen At 17:37 11/08/2003 +0900, HIRAOKA Yuichiro wrote: >I'like to do cluster analysis by using mahalanobis distance. >Could you tell me how to do? > >______________________________________________ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
