On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jarrod Hadfield wrote: > Dear All, > > I have spatial data (presence/absence for 4000 squares) on 250 bird > species and would like to use a model-based clustering technique to > test for species associations. Is there any way of passing a > distance/correlation matrix to mclust as with hclust, rather than the > actual data? Or alternatively, is there a way of getting mclust to > handle binary data? > > I'd appreciate any suggestions!
Why not simply use dist() and hclust() ? Starting with presence/absence data, what could mclust() possibly do that is different from hclust() ? > > Cheers, > > Jarrod > - tom blackwell - u michigan medical school - ann arbor - ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
