[R] clustering

msck9@mizzou.edu msck9 at mizzou.edu
Thu Jan 27 22:37:16 CET 2005


The cluster analysis should be able to handle that. I think if you 
know how many clusters you have, "kmeans" is ok, or the EM algorithm 
can also do that. 
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:44:42PM -0500, WeiWei Shi wrote:
> Hi,
> I just get a question (sorry if it is a dumb one) and I "phase" my
> question in the following R codes:
> 
> group1<-rnorm(n=50, mean=0, sd=1)
> group2<-rnorm(n=20, mean=1, sd=1.5)
> group3<-c(group1,group2)
> 
> 
> Now, if I am given a dataset from group3, what method (discriminant
> analysis, clustering, maybe) is the best to cluster them by using R.
> The known info includes: 2 clusters, normal distribution (but the
> parameters are unknown).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed
> 
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