R: K-Means Clustering

kmeans {mva} | R Documentation

## K-Means Clustering

### Description

Perform k-means clustering on a data matrix.

### Usage

    kmeans(x, centers, iter.max = 10)

### Arguments

`x` | A numeric matrix of data, or an object that can be coerced to such a matrix (such as a numeric vector or a data frame with all numeric columns).
`centers` | Either the number of clusters or a set of initial cluster centers. If the first, a random set of rows in `x` are chosen as the initial centers.
`iter.max` | The maximum number of iterations allowed.

### Details

The data given by `x` is clustered by the k-means algorithm. When this terminates, all cluster centres are at the mean of their Voronoi sets (the set of data points which are nearest to the cluster centre).

The algorithm of Hartigan and Wong (1979) is used.

### Value

A list with components:

`cluster` | A vector of integers indicating the cluster to which each point is allocated.
`centers` | A matrix of cluster centres.
`withinss` | The within-cluster sum of squares for each cluster.
`size` | The number of points in each cluster.

### References

Hartigan, J.A. and Wong, M.A. (1979). A K-means clustering algorithm. Applied Statistics 28, 100–108.

### Examples

    # a 2-dimensional example
    x <- rbind(matrix(rnorm(100, sd = 0.3), ncol = 2),
               matrix(rnorm(100, mean = 1, sd = 0.3), ncol = 2))
    cl <- kmeans(x, 2, 20)
    plot(x, col = cl$cluster)
    points(cl$centers, col = 1:2, pch = 8)

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