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R: fuzzyMCAk
fuzzyMCAkR Documentation

fuzzyMCAk

Description

Implements Fuzzy Cluster MCA (Hwang, Dillon and Takane, 2010) which combines Multiple Correspondence Analysis for dimension reduction with fuzzy c-means (Bezdek, 1981) for clustering.

Usage

fuzzyMCAk(data,nclus=3,ndim=2,nstart=1)

Arguments

data

categorical dataset

nclus

number of clusters

ndim

dimensionality of the solution

nstart

number of random starts

Value

obscoord

object scores

attcoord

attribute scores

centroid

cluster centroids

cluID

hard cluster membership

U

fuzzy cluster membership

FPI

Fuzziness Performance Index

MPE

Modified Partition Entropy

criterion

optimal value of the objective function

Author(s)

Markos, A. amarkos@gmail.com, Iodice D'Enza , A. iodicede@gmail.com and Van de Velden, M. vandevelden@ese.eur.nl

References

Bezdek, J. C. (1981). Pattern recognition with fuzzy objective function algorithms. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Hwang, H., Dillon, W. R. and Takane, Y. (2010). Fuzzy Cluster Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Behaviormetrika, 37(2), 111-133.

See Also

groupals, iFCB, MCAk

Examples

     data(underwear)  
     outfMCAk <- fuzzyMCAk(underwear[c(1:200),c(1:2)],nclus=3,ndim=2,nstart=1)
     plotrd(outfMCAk)
     

Results