>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Bolser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Mon, 11 Oct 2004 16:21:53 +0100 (BST) writes:
Dan> Gives strange results.
Dan> I get 'weird' dendrograms with canberra / binary distance metric and
Dan> median / centroid cluster methods.
it doesn't depend on the metric:
Both 'median' and 'centroid' methods are known to *not*
guarantee ``monotone distance measures'', or equivalently to
possibly lead to dendrograms with so called ``inversions''.
We should add this to help page for hclust().
Probably for this reason, agnes() from the cluster package
doesn't have these two methods [explicitly] -- though it now
allows general parameter Lance-William formula methods which can
also lead to inversions.
Dan> Is this just my data?
evidently not. Though the problem does not appear for all data
sets...
Regards,
Martin Maechler
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