Re: DTW distance measure and K-medioids, Hierarchical clustering

2015-01-10 Thread Marko Dinic
Ted, It's because I'm trying to cluster time series that may differ in length, some parts may be shifted, some parts may last longer in one signal than in the other (somehow skewed), but they represent more-less the same thing. DTW seems good because it's optimized for such things (used a

Re: DTW distance measure and K-medioids, Hierarchical clustering

2015-01-10 Thread Ted Dunning
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Marko Dinic marko.di...@nissatech.com wrote: For example, mean of two sinusoids while one of them is shifted by Pi is 0. And that's definitely not a good centroid in my case. Well, if you think that phase shifts represent small distance proportional to phase