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Re: st: Clustering with Sequence analysis/optimal matching


From   [email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Clustering with Sequence analysis/optimal matching
Date   Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:17:30 +0000

On Wed, Mar 21 2012, Stefan Weih wrote:

> In determining the optimal number of clusters I tried to create a
> dendrogram using the syntax:
>
> cluster tree wards, cutnumber(20)
>
> Unfortunately, it returns the error message "currently can't handle
> dendrogram reversals".

According to my limited understanding of cluster analysis, reversals
shouldn't occur with Ward's method. They are expected with some other
methods. 

Did you actually use Ward's method? 

Is your distance matrix actually called wards or is that a typo in your
-cluster tree- command?

Brendan
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