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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Did you look at the possibilities offered by the WeightedCluster package of Matthias Studer? The package comes with a vignette that nicely documents the proposed
tools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> traminer-users-bounces@lists.r-forge.r-project.org
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Rimantas Vosylis<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Traminer-users] Antw: Re: Antw: selecting the number of clusters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Gerhard,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Indeed it is possible to input the distance martix, but it is also mandatory to specify the data
</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D">L</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> I tried to input the sequence object as data but it does not work
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I will look through the literature You suggested!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 10, 2015 1:55 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Traminer-users] Antw: selecting the number of clusters</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">please try the R - package 'nbclust' do decide how many clusters are feasable. In addition to that statistical measures,
inspect the different cluster solutions by content and how meaningful interpretations are. You can also do some kind of x-square test where you align the clusters with variables not used in the cluster analysis. At least you have some kind of face validity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Best regards - Gerhard A. Wührer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="groupwisereplyheader"><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">>>> Rimantas Vosylis <<a href="mailto:rvosylis@live.com">rvosylis@live.com</a>> 10.06.2015
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Dear Traminer users,</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I am trying to build a typology of sequences by using cluster analysis with OM and Ward algorith.</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">I have a problem of choosing the number of clusters. I use several empirical indexes, but they don‘t help me a lot. I use Calinski
and harabasz (CH) index, but it has a peak at two cluster solution and the goes down. I also use average shilloute width but it gives me the similar results as CH index. I also run pseudo ANOVA to see which cluster solution explains most variance, but it tells
me the opposite – the more the clusters the higher the pseudo R2 gets. When I look at the various plots (e.g. seqdplot) I see that the most meaningful solutions (I have several types of sequences) lie somewhere between 4-6 clusters.</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Could You perhaps suggest which indexes worked best for You and matched Your expectations / theoretical knowledge and that I could
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Thank You in advance!!</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Sincerely,</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Rimantas Vosylis</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Mykolas Romeris University</span><span lang="LT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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