[R] Which cluster function can be used to cluster a correlaiton matrix?

Earl F. Glynn efg at stowers-institute.org
Thu Dec 29 23:49:14 CET 2005


"Martin Maechler" <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote in message
news:17330.28661.326507.399956 at stat.math.ethz.ch...

> The clue is to transform correlations to dissimilarities.
. . .
> and then use  hclust(), agnes(), pam(), [the latter two from
> package 'cluster'], ...
> with 'Dx' as dissimilarity

Perhaps this TechNote may be of interest:

Correlation "Distances" and Hierarchical Clustering
http://research.stowers-institute.org/efg/R/Visualization/cor-cluster/index.htm

efg




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