[R] Cluster Analysis with minimum cluster size?

Danny Heuman dsheuman at rogers.com
Sat Mar 27 01:54:54 CET 2004


Hi all,

Is it possible to run kmeans, pam or clara with a constraint such that
no resulting cluster has fewer than X cases?

These kmeans algorithms often find clusters that are too small for my
use.  There are usually a few clusters with 1-10 cases (generally
substantial outliers).  I then have to manually assign the small ones
to other sizable clusters.

If this doesn't exist, it there such an algorithm that does this?

Thanks,

Danny




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