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PC

Partition coefficient

Description

Produces the partition coefficient index. The optimal number of clusters k is is such that the index takes the maximum value.

Usage

PC (U)

Arguments

`U`	Membership degree matrix

Value

`pc`	Value of the partition coefficient index

Author(s)

Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Alessio Serafini

References

Bezdek J.C., 1974. Cluster validity with fuzzy sets. Journal of Cybernetics, 3, 58-73.

Examples

## McDonald's data
data(Mc)
names(Mc)
## data normalization by dividing the nutrition facts by the Serving Size (column 1)
for (j in 2:(ncol(Mc)-1))
Mc[,j]=Mc[,j]/Mc[,1]
## removing the column Serving Size
Mc=Mc[,-1]
## fuzzy k-means
## (excluded the factor column Type (last column))
clust=FKM(Mc[,1:(ncol(Mc)-1)],k=6,m=1.5,stand=1)
## partition coefficient
pc=PC(clust$U)

fclust

Fuzzy Clustering

v2.1.1

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Paolo Giordani, Maria Brigida Ferraro, Alessio Serafini

Initial release

2019-09-16

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