Thank you very much! I had misunderstood it's true...

On Nov 28, 2007 6:28 PM, Birgit Lemcke <birgit.lemcke@systbot.uzh.ch> wrote:

> Hello Eleni,
>
> as far as I understood and used agnes() the method argument
> determines only the clustering method.
> If you use diss=TRUE the distances should be taken from the distance
> matrix.
>
> Birgit
>
> Am 28.11.2007 um 12:18 schrieb Eleni Christodoulou:
>
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I am performingsome clustering analysis on microarray data using
> > agnes{cluster} and I have created my own dissimilarity matrix
> > according to a
> > distance measure different from "euclidean" or "manhattan" etc. My
> > question
> > is,  if I choose for example method="complete", how are the distances
> > between the elements calculated? Are they taken form the dissimilarity
> > matrix I have provided as the first argument?
> > clust.complete.agnes<-agnes(as.dist(D),diss="TRUE",method="complete")
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> > Eleni
> >
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