object of class data.frame, with the data of active variables.
metodo
function of ade4 for ade4 factorial analysis, dudi.pca,Principal Component Analysis;
dudi.coa, Correspondence Analysis; witwit.coa, Internal Correspondence Analysis;
dudi.acm, Multiple Correspondence Analysis ...
dfilu
ilustrative variables (default NULL)
nf
number of axes to use into the factorial analysis (default 2)
nfcl
number of axes to use in the classification (default 10)
k.clust
number of classes to work (default 3)
scanFC
if is TRUE, it asks in the console the values nf, nfcl y k.clust
n.max
when rowname(dfact)>=n.max, k-means is performed previous to hierarchical
clustering (default 5000)
n.clus
when rowname(fact)>=n.max, the previous k-means is performed with
n.clus groups (default 1000)
sign
threshold test value to show the characteristic variables and modalities
conso
when conso is TRUE, the process of consolidating the classification is
performed (default TRUE)
n.indi
number of indices to draw in the histogram (default 25)
row.w
vector containing the row weights if metodo<>dudi.coa
x
object of class FactoClass
...
further arguments passed to or from other methods
X
coordinates of the elements of a class
W
weights of the elements of a class
Details
Lebart et al. (1995) present a strategy to analyze a data table using multivariate methods, consisting
of an intial factorial analysis according to the nature of the compiled data, followed by the performance
of mixed clustering. The mixed clustering combines hierarchic clustering using the Ward's method with
K-means clustering. Finally a partition of the data set and the characterization of each one of the
classes is obtained, according to the active and illustrative variables, being quantitative, qualitative
or frequency.
FactoClass is a function that connects procedures of the package ade4 to perform the analysis
factorial of the data and from stats for the cluster analysis.
The function analisis.clus calculates the geometric characteristics of each class:
size, inertia, weight and square distance to the origin.
For impression in LaTeX format see FactoClass.tex
To draw factorial planes with cluster see plotFactoClass
Value
object of class FactoClass with the following:
dudi
object of class dudi from ade4 with the specifications of the factorial analysis
nfcl
number of axes selected for the classification
k
number of classes
indices
table of indices obtained through WARD method
cor.clus
coordinates of the clusters
clus.summ
summary of the clusters
cluster
vector indicating the cluster of each element
carac.cate
cluster characterization by qualitative variables
carac.cont
cluster characterization by quantitative variables
carac.frec
cluster characterization by frequency active variables