Re: [R] data(eurodist) and PCA ??

2004-10-13 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Dan Bolser wrote: If I perform PCA on the 'eurodist' data, should I get an accurate geographic layout of the cities with biplot? No, but a good approximation. (barring inversions, i.e. their is no way to define north.. but you get the idea...) I have a complex

Re: [R] data(eurodist) and PCA ??

2004-10-13 Thread Jari Oksanen
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:51, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Dan Bolser wrote: I have a complex distance matrix, and I am thinking about how to cluster it and how to visualize the quality of the resulting clusters. Using PCA and plotting the first two components is

Re: [R] data(eurodist) and PCA ??

2004-10-13 Thread Dan Bolser
On 13 Oct 2004, Jari Oksanen wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 09:51, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Dan Bolser wrote: I have a complex distance matrix, and I am thinking about how to cluster it and how to visualize the quality of the resulting clusters. Using PCA and plotting

[R] data(eurodist) and PCA ??

2004-10-12 Thread Dan Bolser
If I perform PCA on the 'eurodist' data, should I get an accurate geographic layout of the cities with biplot? (barring inversions, i.e. their is no way to define north.. but you get the idea...) I have a complex distance matrix, and I am thinking about how to cluster it and how to visualize