Display in Kmeans function
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What is the meaning of title "phase" and "num" in the Kmeans function when the display option is on? I kind of guess the "num" representing the number of outliers. Is my guessing right?
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the cyclist
2016-10-4
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phase refers to "batch update" (1) or "online update" (2). The meaning of these phases is described in the kmeans documentation, in the section Name-Value Pair Arguments section, under "Online Phase".
I believe that num is the number of clusters found after each iteration, but I could not find that stated in the documentation.
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Chung-Chi Tsai
2016-10-5
the cyclist
2016-10-5
Yeah, that would be strange ... and I got that wrong. :-)
I was able to spend time looking at the code, which is fairly intricate. I'm pretty sure now that for each iteration, num is actually the number of points that moved from their current cluster to a different one. So, for a problem with N points, it will always start at N for the first iteration (because each point is assigned to a brand-new cluster). If one uses online updates, I think it will always end at 0. It might not be 0 if you only use batch updates.
The algorithm is well buried, in the routine kmeans2(), which is called by kmeans. I still couldn't find this referenced in the documentation.
Sorry for the earlier misinformation.
Chung-Chi Tsai
2016-10-12
the cyclist
2016-10-17
Yes, I would say that that is a reasonable conceptual way of thinking about it.
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Chung-Chi Tsai
2016-11-6
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