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>Hello.
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>Is it possible to choose the distance in the kmeans algorithm?
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>I have m vectors of n components and I want to cluster them using kmeans
>algorithm but I want to use the Mahalanobis distance or another distance.
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>How can I do it in R?
>If I use kmeans, I have no option to choose t
You do realize that Mahalanobis distance is just Euclidean distance on
some linear transformation of the variables? So all you need to do is to
transform the data you pass to kmeans to 'sphere' the Mahalanobis
distance.
The K means *algorithms* do depend on Euclidean distance (e.g. in choosing
Hello.
Is it possible to choose the distance in the kmeans algorithm?
I have m vectors of n components and I want to cluster them using kmeans
algorithm but I want to use the Mahalanobis distance or another distance.
How can I do it in R?
If I use kmeans, I have no option to choose the distance.
