I don't exactly understand what you do, could you show me the program that you execute to do that?
> n.bouget wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to know which distance is using in the function kmeans > > and if we can change this distance. > > Indeed, in the function pam, we can put a distance matrix in > > parameter (by the line "pam<-pam(dist(matrixdata),k=7)" ) but > > we can't do it in the function kmeans, we have to put the > > matrix of data directly ... > > Thanks in advance, > > Nicolas BOUGET > > One solution is to transform the data in a way, that the euclidean > distance of the transformed values represents some other distance of the > original values. This works at least for the Mahalanobis-Distance, when > one applies a multivariate technique to a PCA transformed and re-scaled > matrix, but I don't know if there are transformations for some other > distance measures. > > Thomas P. > Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,34€/mn) ; tél : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34€/mn) ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
