adcoord {fpc} | R Documentation |
Asymmetric discriminant coordinates as defined in Hennig (2003). Asymmetric discriminant projection means that there are two classes, one of which is treated as the homogeneous class (i.e., it should appear homogeneous and separated in the resulting projection) while the other may be heterogeneous. The principle is to maximize the ratio between the projection of a between classes separation matrix and the projection of the covariance matrix within the homogeneous class.
adcoord(xd, clvecd, clnum=1)
xd |
the data matrix; a numerical object which can be coerced to a matrix. |
clvecd |
integer vector of class numbers; length must equal
nrow(xd) . |
clnum |
integer. Number of the homogeneous class. |
The square root of the homogeneous classes covariance matrix
is inverted by use of
tdecomp
, which can be expected to give
reasonable results for singular within-class covariance matrices.
List with the following components
ev |
eigenvalues in descending order. |
units |
columns are coordinates of projection basis vectors.
New points x can be projected onto the projection basis vectors
by x %*% units |
proj |
projections of xd onto units . |
Christian Hennig chrish@stats.ucl.ac.uk http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche/
Hennig, C. (2004) Asymmetric linear dimension reduction for classification. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 13, 930-945 .
Hennig, C. (2005) A method for visual cluster validation. In: Weihs, C. and Gaul, W. (eds.): Classification - The Ubiquitous Challenge. Springer, Heidelberg 2005, 153-160.
plotcluster
for straight forward discriminant plots.
discrproj
for alternatives.
rFace
for generation of the example data used below.
set.seed(4634) face <- rFace(600,dMoNo=2,dNoEy=0) grface <- as.integer(attr(face,"grouping")) adcf <- adcoord(face,grface==2) adcf2 <- adcoord(face,grface==4) plot(adcf$proj,col=1+(grface==2)) plot(adcf2$proj,col=1+(grface==4)) # ...done in one step by function plotcluster.