[R] Partitioning around mediods (PAM)

[Ranjan Maitra]

The question is not reproducable, therefore useless. Perhaps you are forgetting what a medoid is when you expect a mean?

HTH,
Ranjan


On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:09:09 +0200 (CEST) nathaniel Grey <nathaniel.grey at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need some help understanding the output from PAM. When I look at the output it doesn't list the cluster number by the median vlaues on each of the variables (like it does with k-means) Instead I have the following:
> 
> So I know for instance cluster 1 has a mean for variable1 of 33.33, however when I run PAM i get:
>       variable 1     variable2
> 29    32                12
> 97    12                 9 
> 308  106               8
> 217  62                 2
> 
> Does 29 relate to cluster 1,  and 97 to cluster2 etc.
> 
> Hope this makes sense,
> 
> Nathaniel
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