Re: [R] What is mclust up to? Different clusters found if x and y interchanged

2010-04-20 Thread Bryan Hanson
Thanks Prof. Fraley. This is very helpful. I had looked at the way mclust gets its start and that looked like a possible source of the differences, but had not had time to get up to speed and figure it out. I was thinking it was more of a set.seed sort of thing. Now I know more. Thanks so

[R] What is mclust up to? Different clusters found if x and y interchanged

2010-04-19 Thread Bryan Hanson
Hello All... I gave a task to my students that involved using mclust to look for clusters in some bivariate data of isotopes vs various mining locations. They discovered something I didnĀ¹t expect; the data (called tur) is appended below. p - qplot(x = dD, y = dCu65, data = tur, color = mine)