Submitted by dylan on Thu, 2006-03-09 19:00.
Figure 1. Two class example
Figure 2: Four class example
Figure 3: 2-way fuzzy membership
Examples based on a random data set (see example code below), illustrating some of the differences between the K-means and C-means clustering methods as implemented in R. Next time an example with soil profile data collected from the Pinnacles National Monument soil survey efforts. An online version of the PINN soil survey will be available soon here.
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Example in R:
## load required packages:
require(cluster)
require(e1071)
## make a dateset with 5 populations
x <- matrix( c(
rnorm(50, mean=.3, sd=.5),
rnorm(50, mean=.16, sd=.1),
rnorm(50, mean=.4, sd=.3),
rnorm(50, mean=.6, sd=.2),
rnorm(50, mean=.2, sd=.2)
), ncol=2)
## load function membership() : see attached file at bottom of page
source('cluster_demo_function.R')
## run an example with 2, then 4 classes: See Figures 1 and 2
membership(x,2)
membership(x,4)
## two-way fuzzy membership illustrated with color: See Figure 3
## display 2-way fuzzy membership
plot(x, main="C-means: 2-way Fuzzy Membership", type="n", xlab="Variable 1", ylab="Variable 2")
points(cc$centers, col = c("red", "blue"), pch = 8, cex=2)
points(x, col = rgb(cc$membership[,1], 0 ,cc$membership[,2]) , cex=0.5, pch=16)
