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pamward

PAM from k-solution of hierarchical clustering

Description

Runs a pam clustering (pam) from the solution in k groups of a hierarchical clustering (agnes) .

Usage

pamward(diss, k=3, method="ward", dist)

Arguments

diss

Distance matrix or object.
k

Integer. Number of clusters.
method

Method for the hierarchical clustering (see agnes).
dist

Deprecated. Use diss instead.

Details

The function first runs the hierarchical clustering, retrieves the medoids of the solution for the provided k and uses those medoids as start centers for the pam partitioning.

Value

An object of class "pam". See pam.object for details.

Author(s)

Gilbert Ritschard

See Also

agnes and pam.

Examples

library(cluster)
data(actcal)
actcal.seq <- seqdef(actcal[1:200,13:24])
actcal.ham <- seqdist(actcal.seq, method = "HAM")
clust <- pamward(actcal.ham, k = 4)
table(clust$clustering)
TraMineRextras

TraMineR Extension

v0.6.1
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Gilbert Ritschard [aut, cre, ths, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-0903>), Matthias Studer [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6269-1412>), Reto Buergin [aut], Tim Liao [ctb], Alexis Gabadinho [ctb], Pierre-Alexandre Fonta [ctb], Nicolas Muller [ctb], Patrick Rousset [ctb]
Initial release
2021-01-20

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