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Subject: MASS4 questions
From: nj7w@virginia.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 18:04:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,

I am using MASS4 package for doing classification.
Facing two problems:
1) Have a test data frame, named data (9*3)
and wish to calssify it in 3 groups using knn1.

The code is:
> data
               c1    c2    c3
        r1    1.0   1.0   1.0
        r2    2.0   1.5   3.0
        r3    1.2   0.9   1.0
        r4   20.0  14.0  15.0
        r5   21.0  13.0  16.0
        r6   22.0  14.0  14.5
        r7 1001.0 105.0 100.0
        r8 1000.0  88.0  96.0
        r9  999.0 100.0 101.0

> grid <- somgrid(3,1,topo = "hexagonal")
> test.som<-SOM(data,grid)
> bins <- as.numeric(knn1(test.som$code, data, 0:2))

The classification of the first two groups is
variable, as repeating the knn1 statement gives different
classification for 1st two groups.

When I look at the test.som$codes, I got:
> test.som$codes
                  c1       c2       c3
        [1,] 352.1387 327.4666 340.0801
        [2,] 352.1387 327.4666 340.0801
        [3,] 364.9670 384.6117 270.0031
implying that the representative vector is very similar in
first two cases, and hence the misclassification by knn1.

Shouldn't they be different, as clearly the data set has three
types of vectors, having low, medium and high values or I am
missing some part?

2) It is more of understanding problem:

If we wish to classify data set of dimensions X*Y
and specify the grid as m*n, then SOM gives the
matrix of representatives (m*n * Y).

Clearly, X >= m*n
but there should not be any dependency of m*n on Y
(like m*n >=Y etc.)

So why this code is failing?
> y<-matrix(rnorm(1000),nrow=100,byrow=T)
> gr1 <- somgrid(4,2,topo = "hexagonal")
> SOM(y,gr1)

It gives: "Terminating S Session: Bus Error signal"

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
Nitin







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