fom                   package:SAGx                   R Documentation

_C_l_u_s_t_e_r_i_n_g _F_i_g_u_r_e _o_f _M_e_r_i_t

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Goodness of clustering measure based on prediction error.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     fom(data,cluster)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    data: The data matrix

 cluster: a vector descibing the cluster memberships

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The criterion in the Reference is not correct in the article (i.e.
     does not follow from the premises), but has been corrected here.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     The Figure of Merit measure of the current clustering

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Per Broberg

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Yeung, K.Y., Haynor, D.R. and Ruzzo, W.L. (2001) Validating
     clustering for gene expression data.  _Bioinformatics_ Vol. 17,
     pp. 309-318

