plot2kill.hierarchical

This file contains functions for performing hierarchical clustering, and can be used for drawing heatmaps and, eventually, dendrograms.

Members

Enums

ClusterBy
enum ClusterBy

Cluster by rows or columns?

Functions

euclidean
double euclidean(R1 a, R2 b)

Euclidean distance.

hierarchicalCluster
Cluster* hierarchicalCluster(double[][] matrix, ClusterBy clusterBy, string[] names = null)

Perform hierarchical clustering. matrix must be rectangular and represents the data matrix. distance is the distance metric, which must be a function that accepts two equal-length input ranges of doubles. linkage is the linkage function, which must accept a double[] that represents all possible pairwise distances between two clusters and return a summary of these distances.

mean
double mean(double[] stuff)

Used for mean linkage.

Structs

Cluster
struct Cluster

A tree for defining hierarchical clusters.

Bugs

Not very efficient, though it probably doesn't need to be because the use case is visualizations, and all the information has to fit reasonably on the visualization. Therefore, N will always be fairly small.

Copyright (C) 2011 David Simcha

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