Hi,
dear Douglas,
for a
long time I have not heard of you.
I hope
you are fine, probably retired?
I'm
still working at SAS Institute in the
Enterprise Miner department.
Would
it be possible to send me a copy
of
your two papers too? I have two email
addresses: I reply from here in Heidelberg,
Germany. In NC, I have
Did
you know that I have a few of my Stasi
files
on our private website?
Kind
regards,
Wolfgang
First of all, MDS is NOT
a clustering method, although the two methodologies are often used in a
complementary manner, just as, say, principal components and clustering
analysis may sometimes be (but often in an inappropriate
way).
Secondly, there's an enormous literature on both subjects,
including numerous papers discussing the two approaches and their
interrelationships. Two papers that were recently completed that might
be helpful to you, both to be published in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of
Social Measurement, are one by Carroll, Arabie and Hubert on MDS and another
by Arabie, Hubert and Carroll on Clustering. These are both short
overview articles, but provide other references which could be useful to
you. Since these papers are not yet published, if you're interested I
could arrange to send you electronic copies of preprints of both.
Doug
Carroll
At 11:13 AM 5/5/2004 -0500, Henry Bulley wrote:
Hello all,
Do any of
you know of a good review paper/article that discusses cluster
analysis/cluster validation as well as other clustering approaches like
MDS?
Thanks
Henry
From:
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James Rohlf
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 8:23 PM
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You might find more responses to such questions on the
morphometrics list server. For information about joining this list see http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/morphmet.html.
You might also find this website useful has it has links to many resources
for the study of shape variation.
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F. James
Rohlf
State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245
www: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/rohlf
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- From: Classification, clustering, and phylogeny estimation [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Angelique Augereau
- Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:23 PM
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- Hi,
- I have human body scan data on 4 parts of the body: waist, upper hip,
high hip and lower hip. I am trying to find a way to classify human
bodies into different types based on the 4 measures. E.g. straight
body, pear shape, etc.
- Can you please tell me what kinds of techniques would be appropriate
for this kind of analysis? I am working with
Mathematica.
- Thanks!
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