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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I am using DAPC using adegenet package for cluster analysis. However I am not sure if I am following the correct way to select n.pca and n.clust based on cross-validation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I am following below steps<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">I am using a genind object<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Used find.clusters() </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">grp <- find.clusters()</span><span style="color:black"> and interactively chose n.pca and n.clust. Based on plot, I selected
<span style="background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua">n.pca=200 and n.clust=21</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Next used xvalDapc() to get some idea about number of PCs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">xval <- xvalDapc(tab(fdat, NA.method = "mean"), grp$grp, n.pca.max = 300, n.rep = 30)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Based on number of PCs achieving highest mean success and lowest MSE, I selected
<span style="background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua">n.pca=50</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Further, I tried to narrowed the search of PC’s with n.pca = 30:60<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">xval_optimum <- xvalDapc(tab(fdat, NA.method = "mean"), grp$grp, n.pca = 30:60, n.rep = 100,parallel
 = "multicore", ncpus = 6L )</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Finally I selected <span style="background:aqua;mso-highlight:aqua">
n.pca=30</span> based on number of PCs achieving highest mean success and lowest MSE from xval_optimum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">My questions are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">From cross-validation, it seems the optimum number of PCs is 30. Should I re-run find.clusters() with n.pca=30 and select n.clust interactively from plot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="color:black"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">And then re-run dapc() with n.pca=30 and output of n.clust from step 6. Please advise<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Roma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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