These functions cut hierarchical clusterings into flat clusterings
or find the roots of the forest formed by a cut by providing the flat
cluster ids of each observation.
| fcluster(Z, t[, criterion, depth, R, monocrit]) |
Forms flat clusters from the hierarchical clustering defined by |
| fclusterdata(X, t[, criterion, metric, ...]) |
Cluster observation data using a given metric. |
| leaders(Z, T) |
(L, M) = leaders(Z, T): |
These are routines for agglomerative clustering.
| linkage(y[, method, metric]) |
Performs hierarchical/agglomerative clustering on the condensed distance matrix y. |
| single(y) |
Performs single/min/nearest linkage on the condensed distance matrix y |
| complete(y) |
Performs complete/max/farthest point linkage on a condensed distance matrix |
| average(y) |
Performs average/UPGMA linkage on a condensed distance matrix |
| weighted(y) |
Performs weighted/WPGMA linkage on the condensed distance matrix |
| centroid(y) |
Performs centroid/UPGMC linkage. See linkage for more |
| median(y) |
Performs median/WPGMC linkage. See linkage for more |
| ward(y) |
Performs Ward’s linkage on a condensed or redundant distance |
These routines compute statistics on hierarchies.
| cophenet(Z[, Y]) |
Calculates the cophenetic distances between each observation in |
| from_mlab_linkage(Z) |
Converts a linkage matrix generated by MATLAB(TM) to a new |
| inconsistent(Z[, d]) |
Calculates inconsistency statistics on a linkage. |
| maxinconsts(Z, R) |
Returns the maximum inconsistency coefficient for each non-singleton cluster and its descendents. |
| maxdists(Z) |
Returns the maximum distance between any non-singleton cluster. |
| maxRstat(Z, R, i) |
Returns the maximum statistic for each non-singleton cluster and its descendents. |
| to_mlab_linkage(Z) |
Converts a linkage matrix Z generated by the linkage function |
Routines for visualizing flat clusters.
| dendrogram(Z[, p, truncate_mode, ...]) |
Plots the hierarchical clustering as a dendrogram. |
These are data structures and routines for representing hierarchies as
tree objects.
| ClusterNode(id[, left, right, dist, count]) |
A tree node class for representing a cluster. |
| leaves_list(Z) |
Returns a list of leaf node ids (corresponding to observation vector index) as they appear in the tree from left to right. |
| to_tree(Z[, rd]) |
Converts a hierarchical clustering encoded in the matrix Z (by |
These are predicates for checking the validity of linkage and
inconsistency matrices as well as for checking isomorphism of two
flat cluster assignments.
| is_valid_im(R[, warning, throw, name]) |
Returns True if the inconsistency matrix passed is valid. |
| is_valid_linkage(Z[, warning, throw, name]) |
Checks the validity of a linkage matrix. |
| is_isomorphic(T1, T2) |
Determines if two different cluster assignments are equivalent. |
| is_monotonic(Z) |
Returns True if the linkage passed is monotonic. The linkage |
| correspond(Z, Y) |
Checks for correspondence between linkage and condensed distance matrices |
| num_obs_linkage(Z) |
Returns the number of original observations of the linkage matrix passed. |
Utility routines for plotting:
| set_link_color_palette(palette) |
Changes the list of matplotlib color codes to use when coloring links with the dendrogram color_threshold feature. |
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