ICLUST.cluster function

Function to form hierarchical cluster analysis of items

The guts of the ICLUST algorithm. Called by ICLUST See ICLUST for description.

ICLUST.cluster(r.mat, ICLUST.options,smc.items)

Arguments

• r.mat: A correlation matrix
• ICLUST.options: A list of options (see ICLUST)
• smc.items: passed from the main program to speed up processing

Details

See ICLUST

Returns

A list of cluster statistics, described more fully in ICLUST

• comp1: Description of 'comp1'

• comp2: Description of 'comp2'

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References

Revelle, W. 1979, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis and the Internal Structure of Tests. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 14, 57-74. https://personality-project.org/revelle/publications/iclust.pdf

See also more extensive documentation at https://personality-project.org/r/r.ICLUST.html

Author(s)

William Revelle

Note

Although the main code for ICLUST is here in ICLUST.cluster, the more extensive documentation is for ICLUST.

See Also

ICLUST.graph,ICLUST, cluster.fit, VSS, omega