Attributes of Animals
Usage
data(animals)
Format
A data frame with 20 observations on 6 variables:
[ , 1] | war | warm-blooded |
[ , 2] | fly | can fly |
[ , 3] | ver | vertebrate |
[ , 4] | end | endangered |
[ , 5] | gro | live in groups |
[ , 6] | hai | have hair |
All variables are encoded as 1 = `no', 2 = `yes'.Description
This data set considers 6 binary attributes for 20 animals.Details
This dataset is useful for illustrating monothetic (only a single
variable is used for each split) hierarchical clustering.Source
Leonard Kaufman and Peter J. Rousseeuw (1990):
Finding Groups in Data
(pp 297ff).
New York: Wiley.References
Anja Struyf, Mia Hubert & Peter J. Rousseeuw (1996):
Clustering in an Object-Oriented Environment.
Journal of Statistical Software, 1.
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/journals/jss/Examples
data(animals)
ma <- mona(animals)
ma
## Plot similar to Figure 10 in Struyf et al (1996)
plot(ma)