Re: [R] Weighted Clustering

2003-10-23 Thread Christian Hennig
Hi, sorry, I do not have any references, it was only an intuitive idea (but there might be references somewhere out in space). The idea is that you can indeed weight the points. For this you have to multiply the contribution of each point to the target function by the weight, and you have to compu

Re: [R] Weighted Clustering

2003-10-23 Thread vishal goyal
Hi, I have read some of the papers on weighted clustering but those weigths are with respect to variables (say we are clustering height measured in cms and weights in tons etc) rather than each point itself and hence they just multiply the distances with the weights. In my case, it is something li

Re: [R] Weighted Clustering

2003-10-23 Thread Christian Hennig
Hi, the target functions of k-means clusterung and of normal mixture model clustering (in library mclust) should work with weighted data points as well. This is, however, only a theoretical suggestion, because as far as I know, it is not implemented in R, and the R-functions for kmeans and model

[R] Weighted Clustering

2003-10-22 Thread vishal goyal
Hi, I have a data set(say 2-d demands of a product (say flow-rate vs concentration)) and with each demand is the weightage (like a probability) of that demand occuring. Is there a way to cluster this demand-data (deterministic or probabilistic(if possible)) which also incorporates the weights (jus