seriation (version 1.2-3)

Townships: Bertin's Characteristics of Townships

Description

This data contains nine characteristics for 16 townships. The data set was used by Bertin (1981) to illustrate that the conciseness of presentation can be improved by seriating the rows and columns.

Usage

data("Townships")

Arguments

Format

A matrix with 16 0-1 variables (columns) indicating the presence (1) or absence (0) of characteristics of townships (rows).

References

Bertin, J. (1981): Graphics and Graphic Information Processing. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
data("Townships")

## original data
pimage(Townships)
criterion(Townships)


## seriated data
order <- seriate(Townships, method = "BEA", control = list(rep = 5))
pimage(Townships, order)
criterion(Townships, order)

# }

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