"partition"
represent a partitioning of a
dataset into clusters."partition"
object is a list with the following
(and typically more) components:call
generating the object.silhouette
[object Object],[object Object],[object Object] This information is also needed to construct a silhouette plot of
the clustering, see plot.partition
. Note that avg.width
can be maximized over different
clusterings (e.g. with varying number of clusters) to choose an
optimal clustering.
"dissimilarity"
, representing the total
dissimilarity matrix of the dataset (or relevant subset, e.g. for
clara
).pam
, clara
or fanny
."partition"
class has a method for the following generic functions:
plot
, clusplot
."partition"
:
"pam"
, "clara"
and "fanny"
. See pam.object
, clara.object
and
fanny.object
for details.
pam
, clara
, fanny
.