From Spider-Man to Hero — Archetypal Analysis in R
Archetypal analysis has the aim to represent observations in a multivariate data setas convex combinations of extremal points. This approach was introduced by Cutler andBreiman (1994); they dened the concrete problem, laid out the theoretical foundationsand presented an algorithm written in Fortran....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Foundation for Open Access Statistics
2009-04-01
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| Series: | Journal of Statistical Software |
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| Online Access: | http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/i08/paper |
| Summary: | Archetypal analysis has the aim to represent observations in a multivariate data setas convex combinations of extremal points. This approach was introduced by Cutler andBreiman (1994); they dened the concrete problem, laid out the theoretical foundationsand presented an algorithm written in Fortran. In this paper we present the R packagearchetypes which is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network. The packageprovides an implementation of the archetypal analysis algorithm within R and dierentexploratory tools to analyze the algorithm during its execution and its nal result. Theapplication of the package is demonstrated on two examples. |
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| ISSN: | 1548-7660 |