[R] Cluster Analysis: Density-Based Method

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Thu Oct 21 15:18:54 CEST 2004


I'm no expert in this, but mclust is `density-based' because it estimates
the density with a mixture of Gaussians.  If this is not what you want, you
should clarify what you mean by `density-based'.  Do you mean an algorithm
based on kernel estimator of the density?

Andy

> From: Fernando Prass
> 
> Yes, but mclust don't have a density-based algorithm. Mclust 
> have the algorithm
> BIC, that is a model-based method...
> 
> Fernando Prass
> 
>  --- Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil at acelerate.com> escreveu: 
> > Fernando Prass wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi people,
> > >
> > >Does anybody know some Density-Based Method for clustering 
> implemented in R?
> > >  
> > >
> > Have you looked at CRAN package mclust?
> > 
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >Fernando Prass
> 
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