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| Reply To: | Classification, clustering, and phylogeny estimation |
| Date: | Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:07:47 +0900 |
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> Hi,
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> Have anyone any idea if any of the software package like (SPSS, s-Plus,
> Stata) includes any function in order to determine the optimum number of
> groups in a data set using stopping rules of cluster Analysis.
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> Thanks everyone in advance.
> Sincerely yours,
> George Feretzakis (MSc in Biostatistics)
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The MCLUST package allows you to determine the BIC values in order to determine
the number of groups for a given model-based cluster analysis. You can
download it from the statlib site. It is for both R and SPLUS.
Best, Mark Hall
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