tdclust {GeneNT}R Documentation

Traditional clustering

Description

This function does traditional clustering based on core R function hclust().

Usage

tdclust(p)

Arguments

p p is the exponential tuning factor. The default value is 1, and it can be set to other positive integers when necessary.

Details

This function is written in comparison to the network constrained clustering implemented as ncclust().

Value

This function returns a distance matrix that can be used by any distance based clustering software.

Author(s)

Dongxiao Zhu (http://dongxiaozhu.googlepages.com/home)

References

Zhu, D., Hero, A.O., Qin, Z.S. and Swaroop, A. High throughput screening of co-expressed gene pairs with controlled False Discovery Rate (FDR) and Minimum Acceptable Strength (MAS). J. Comput. Biol, in press.

See Also

ncclust

Examples

## load GeneNT library
library(GeneNT)

## load example dataset
data(dat) 
## Note, data matrix name has to be "dat"
## Regular hierarchical clustering, for example, p = 1.
tdclust(1)

[Package GeneNT version 1.4 Index]