The K-means algorithm is a method to automatically cluster similar data examples together. The intuition behind K-means is an iterative procedure that starts by guessing the initial centroids, and then refines this guess by repeatedly assigning examples to their closest centroids and then recomputing the centroids based on the assignments. Read more »
In general, the standard practice for correcting for population stratification in genetic studies is to use principal components analysis (PCA) to categorize samples along different ethnic axes. Price et al. published on this in 20...
Rounding off our reports on major new developments in SAS 9.3, today we'll talk about proc mcmc and the random statement.Stand-alone packages for fitting very general Bayesian models using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have been available for...
In the early stages of a literature review, you may have hundreds of papers and not know how to even begin sorting through them. In this post, I show you how to perform a two-stage clustering analysis with R so that you can identify the main groups within your data, based on key...
Given a set of numerical datapoints, we often want to know how many clusters the datapoints form. Two practical algorithms for determining the number of clusters are the gap statistic and the prediction strength. Gap Statistic The gap statistic algorithm … Continue reading →
Just developed a small crawler to check my online content at binfalse.de in terms of W3C validity and the availability of external links. Here is the code and some statistics...
Ladies and gentlemen, waiting is finally over. I'm proud to introduce Rumpel!
About Clustergrams In 2002, Matthias Schonlau published in “The Stata Journal” an article named “The Clustergram: A graph for visualizing hierarchical and . As explained in the abstract: In hierarchical cluster analysis dendrogram graphs are used to visualize how clusters are formed. I propose an alternative graph named “clustergram” to examine how cluster members...
The authors here invited ACM KDD Innovation Award and IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award winners to each nominate up to 10 best-known algorithms in data mining, including the algorithm name, justification for nomination, and a representative public...
Download "Getting Started with the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit" (pdf, 1.25 megabytes) Download the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit My Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit is about to move into private beta. What's in the release?...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).